I’m a district office worker in California. I’m starting to see an increased trend of private agencies staffing our schools with “consultant” like teachers.

It happened a while ago with speech. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened with psychologists. Nonetheless, about 1/3rd of our special education teachers are contracted via a private agency. They make about 40% more than the other special education teachers they teach right next door to, but don’t have to attend staff meetings and such. I’m worried that this trend will continue with hard to fill positions, such as math.

I hope that California will pass a law to put an end to this. It’s very unfair to our certificated staff working on the normal salary schedule.

Submitted March 19, 2023 at 02:18PM by b1ackfyre https://ift.tt/PGjEnYr