Q&A
Deployment of special education teachers to private and religious schools
2:05:17
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DOE officials explain their strategy for deploying special education teachers to address due process complaints, focusing on private and religious schools. This approach aims to proactively arrange special education teacher support services.
- 20 special education teachers are being deployed to private and religious schools
- The goal is to provide special education teacher support services proactively to avoid due process complaints
- This deployment is separate from addressing traditional Carter cases related to autism and dyslexia
- DOE is also building out highly specialized programs like AIMS to serve as competitive alternatives for families considering private schools
John Hammer
2:05:17
so absolutely, we're working on on training of those sets teachers, and and, Neil, be sworn in and and support here.
2:05:25
But just to to to be clear, that cohort of teacher are being, are being deployed to private and religious schools in order to arrange, special ed teacher support services, proactively, to avoid the need for due process complaints.
2:05:39
So so the the, you know, the need for autism programs, the need for dyslexia programs to to address traditional Carter cases that deputy chancellor Foti just spoke of, is is, those teachers are not directly addressing that.
2:05:52
They're addressing the needs for services in private and religious schools.
Eric Dinowitz
2:05:55
Okay.
2:05:56
So you so you do have a system to address a particular problem with the the private schools, but what I'm hearing is you also are not targeting the areas where you are seeing the most Carter cases or due process cases.
2:06:09
Is that correct?
John Hammer
2:06:10
I think the vision there is to to is to build out our highly specialized programs, is to serve as competitive alternatives for those families.
2:06:17
And so, you know, our program such as AIMS, which is, 66 students, 2 teachers.
2:06:23
It's a special education teacher and a speech teacher working together to to develop students' communication, and language development needs alongside an IEP a power a classroom paraprofessional.
2:06:36
This this AIMS program is designed is, is extremely competitive to what's being offered in, in, in our Carter Schools in, in, right now.
2:06:46
And so what we're seeing is we're offering this in to more families through the pilot that Deputy Chancellor Foti spoke about.
2:06:52
Families want this program.
2:06:53
And so what we were trying to do is is is we're addressing due process complaints from our non public schools, we're trying to build these highly specialized programs for students on the autism spectrum.
2:07:04
So parents want wanna know that so parents know that there's the local community school has what's has what's needed in order to meet that child's needs.