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Ohio school‑psychology training programs ask Legislature to raise intern pay to retain graduates
Summary
University programs and professional groups told the Senate Education Committee that the current stipend for school‑psychology interns is inadequate; they asked for a budget increase to raise intern pay toward beginning teacher salary and to add roughly 100 internship slots annually.
Representatives of Ohio's school‑psychology training programs and professional association asked the Senate Education Committee to increase state funding for the school‑psychology internship program, arguing current allowances are too low to sustain the pipeline of specialists who work in public schools.
Ginger Young, a practicing school psychologist who also trains interns, told the committee that an intern salary net of taxes, retirement and insurance yields an untenable take‑home pay for a year of full‑time practicum work. "Asking…
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