A four-year California program to help school districts recruit, train and retain special education teachers has been a success, according to a report to the state Legislature from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Data from the participating school districts show that 82%, or 3,906, of the 4,743 teacher candidates in the program have been hired or are on track to be hired as special education teachers.
The Local Solutions to the Shortage of Special Education Teachers Grant, financed in the 2018-19 state budget, authorized $50 million for competitive grants to help school districts develop local solutions to address the shortage of special education teachers.
More than $45 million has been spent so far to pay for tuition, stipends, signing bonuses, induction and to reduce student debt.
Funds also have been used to prepare mentor teachers and create professional learning communities, according to the report.
School districts that took part in the program reported that teacher turnover remained consistent despite the grant, but that they were able to fill vacancies with fully credentialed teachers instead of relying on teachers with emergency-style credentials, according to the CTC staff report.
Hiring qualified special education teachers isn’t a “success”. Hiring great special education teachers, who successfully complete the students’ IEP goals is a “success”. $40 million in taxpayer dollars and no measurable results is a failure. Slogging through a system that results in death by a thousand paapercuts isn’t a success. Do Better, CTA.
and there are federal dollars for special education…
AND>>>>>>
Newscum has run the state into a huge, huge deficit. How long til those teachers get pink slips??????????????????????????????????????????
Yep Yep
Already seeing articles and such sounding the alarm….
Schools looking at massive funding cuts due to Newscum’s excellent executive abilities.
After several years of brainwashing students K-12 with hate and trans agenda, they’ll all need special eds help now. People need to turn to Jesus Christ for help. He’s our only savior! He’s the only way!
100% 🙏
If Jesus loved you you wouldn’t live in concord.
Thought we had a $38B deficit? placating the union and adding more members to bolster his numbers due to the blasting he’s getting in the media lately re: finally questioning how effective (ineffective) he really has been as a governor
Sort of pathetic we need 5k more special ed teachers. If that’s the case what is going on in schools right now. It seems many kids start school with zero motivation. They immediately fall behind and keep falling behind. One grade after the other. Not to just be contrary but I would spend the money of motivators. Someone who in various ways could get children to understand what an education will mean in their lives. Most of us did that as parents but many kids don’t get the word.
Perhaps it’s a bigger problem that 1 in 8 children are put in Special Ed.
They would put every kid on meds if they could.
All the crack babies, lead paint eaters, red/yellow dye consumers.
It’s been haunting us…..
Fix the problem(s), not just work on the remedial crap….