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Can you tell me if any teacher benefits from having many special education students in their class? This is in terms of federal/state funding and/or bonuses. The same question about having problematic kids in a classroom. Thanks!
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Can you tell me if any teacher benefits from having many special education students in their class? This is in terms of federal/state funding. The same question about having problematic kids in a classroom. Thanks!
No. There have been districts that have paid a special stipend to teachers that are certified in the area and willing to teach the most profoundly disabled or the most serious emotional/behavioral disabled in a self-contained classroom, but even that isn't common. But, no, a regular classroom teacher does not get paid extra for having special education students.
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It cost them more to educate special education students than they receive from the federal government (15% of the actual cost) or the state (between 15-55%). It is up to the district to pay the other 30-70%. Special education costs have almost bankrupted a few school districts.
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The school district as a whole can often get extra funding for high-need students, because they incur extra expenses (e.g. an ASL translator, health aide, specialized curricula, etc). My impression is that it seldom covers the real expense to the district, though.
Some districts pay a bonus to teachers of more difficult-to-recruit subject areas, such as STEM or SpEd. (This isn't a widespread practice.) It is not on a per-student basis, though, it's a set bonus. You don't get it for having SpEd students, certainly not on a per-capita basis, you get it for being a licensed SpEd teacher teaching SpEd classes.
The school district as a whole can often get extra funding for high-need students, because they incur extra expenses (e.g. an ASL translator, health aide, specialized curricula, etc). My impression is that it seldom covers the real expense to the district, though.
Some districts pay a bonus to teachers of more difficult-to-recruit subject areas, such as STEM or SpEd. (This isn't a widespread practice.) It is not on a per-student basis, though, it's a set bonus. You don't get it for having SpEd students, certainly not on a per-capita basis, you get it for being a licensed SpEd teacher teaching SpEd classes.
Not much to elaborate. Occasionally, districts will pay a bonus (either yearly, or one-time upon hire) to teachers of certain content areas. This generally only happens if there's both a significant shortage of and a high demand for those teachers in the region, so they're competing with other districts to recruit those personnel.
As nationwide there's a trend of cutting positions, not adding them, now there are generally many more qualified applicants than positions available for most teaching jobs, including those that used to be more difficult to find, like advanced math and sciences. So this practice is not very common.
I'd actually be wary of such bonuses because they suggest the school might be having difficult hiring and retaining teachers.
No no, I need to know more about why a certain district would benefit from having a large quantity of special education students.
They don't. Some moron.......excuse me, individuals think having a bunch of SPED students is the key to the bank safe. It isn't
Start doing the numbers that OldHag gave you. Do a baseline using $15K/student average then start inputting the SPED costs she gave you.
An out of system boarding placement for ED runs about $200K/year. It only takes five of those to hit a million dollars. Some larger systems have hundreds of those placements.
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