The LAAA school as they are commonly known (okay, I’m just too lazy to type it again) wants $250,000 to hire special education teachers for a “co-teaching” environment. While I love any school beefing up their special education department, I have to ask why they haven’t had them for six years, and how will they budget this in other years? And don’t schools get IDEA-B funding for this very purpose? If they have 100 students on IEPs, where is the portion of that allocated to those teachers going? Hmm…paging the Exceptional Children Resources Group at the DOE….
So they want $235,795 for four special education teachers which amounts to an average salary of $58,948.75. And what is the going rate for special education teachers in Delaware? The median range is $55k, so they are close to the target, but I would have to think the funds for that would come from other funds already allocated to the school when it comes to special education.
And here we have another charter school that made $283,000 from the charter school transportation slush fund over a two year period!
The Season Of Myths 