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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 488551" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I see this from the other side too. My easy child is a teacher in a charter school. Their budget is set before the year starts and they budget for normal special needs (if there is such a thing). The charter schools are runindependantly and have no other schools in their district to fall back on for funding. If a child enrolls in the charter school that has severe disabilities that child will probably not receive the services he/she requires. In easy child's school they have one speech therapist that servoices several charter schools, so she is in her school maybe twice a week if lucky. I think the Occupational Therapist (OT) teacher is there even less.</p><p></p><p>She is a kindergarten teacher and has a student who has autism. That was not determined before he entered school, she requested the evaluations after it was apparent he was not able to function in her classroom, and the evaluation just came back last week. He needs a full time aid and the IEP will be written that way. Where is the charter school going to get the funding for that aid? They already cut back to bare bones and there are manyother children in their school who require special needs help that they have to provide.</p><p></p><p>I think the only way this will work is if the school has the ability to reopen the budget and get the funding required to educate every special needs student that comes to their school, but recognize this will be a very costly proposition and one that most communities do not want to finance. If each charter school is reuired to have on hand all the necessary equipment/personnel/services for every disability it will be a costly venture.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what the answer is. Education is in a state of disaster here. easy child makes $10,000 less than teachers in a public school start at right out of college. She has no job security. The public school here have had to eliminate almost all crossing guards because of financial issues, and many schools have no extra curriculars anymore. Thousands of teachers have been laid off. There is no money.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 488551, member: 59"] I see this from the other side too. My easy child is a teacher in a charter school. Their budget is set before the year starts and they budget for normal special needs (if there is such a thing). The charter schools are runindependantly and have no other schools in their district to fall back on for funding. If a child enrolls in the charter school that has severe disabilities that child will probably not receive the services he/she requires. In easy child's school they have one speech therapist that servoices several charter schools, so she is in her school maybe twice a week if lucky. I think the Occupational Therapist (OT) teacher is there even less. She is a kindergarten teacher and has a student who has autism. That was not determined before he entered school, she requested the evaluations after it was apparent he was not able to function in her classroom, and the evaluation just came back last week. He needs a full time aid and the IEP will be written that way. Where is the charter school going to get the funding for that aid? They already cut back to bare bones and there are manyother children in their school who require special needs help that they have to provide. I think the only way this will work is if the school has the ability to reopen the budget and get the funding required to educate every special needs student that comes to their school, but recognize this will be a very costly proposition and one that most communities do not want to finance. If each charter school is reuired to have on hand all the necessary equipment/personnel/services for every disability it will be a costly venture. I don't know what the answer is. Education is in a state of disaster here. easy child makes $10,000 less than teachers in a public school start at right out of college. She has no job security. The public school here have had to eliminate almost all crossing guards because of financial issues, and many schools have no extra curriculars anymore. Thousands of teachers have been laid off. There is no money. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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