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Additional providers needed for preschool special education
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the number of additional providers needed to serve preschoolers with disabilities in various educational settings. Christina Foti from the DOE provides a breakdown of the staffing needs.
- The DOE needs 83 additional staff for preschool assessment teams
- 246 related service providers are required for preschool special education in integrated settings
- 73 related service itinerant team members are needed for services in CVOs and NYSECs
- The department is looking to add 25 additional CPSC administrators and community coordinators
- These additions aim to reduce wait times and administrator workload in special education services
Rita Joseph
4:34:24
Chancellor Foti, I have one more follow-up question for you.
4:34:29
At the January special education hearing, New York City Public Schools testified that you would need additional 246 related service providers in preschool special classes in an integrated setting and even more providers to serve children in general settings, education, special education, general education, three ks and pre k classes did not, you did not give a specific number of providers needed for children in three ks, pre k, general education classes, general education classes in addition to the two forty six service providers needed in preschool special education in integrated settings?
4:35:05
How many more providers do you need to serve preschoolers with disabilities in three k, pre k general education classes?
Christina Foti
4:35:14
Chair, one of the things that we the number of providers that we have are broken into categories, that we still need are broken into categories.
4:35:22
So for our preschool assessment teams, we're looking to bring on another 83 additional staff.
4:35:27
You pointed out related service providers, that's correct, two forty six.
4:35:32
Our related service itinerant team we would be in need of 73 of those.
4:35:37
Those are to provide services in our CVOs and our NYSECs.
4:35:42
And we're also looking to add additional CPSC staff so that when I testified that it's a thirty day wait time, we would like to obviously make that much shorter for families, and we also would like to reduce our CPSC administrator workload.
4:36:03
So we're looking for 25 additional admins as well as community coordinators for outreach to families.
Rita Joseph
4:36:15
Thank you all.
4:36:17
I'll send up follow-up questions and the ones you didn't get to answer.
4:36:21
Thank you so much and happy anniversary chancellor.
Tara Van Real
4:36:23
Thank you, chair.