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School committee refers proposed budget transfer for behavior technicians to finance and operations after questions

Holyoke School Committee · January 13, 2024
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Summary

A proposal to shift district funds from teacher salaries to contracted services for registered behavior technicians at three schools prompted questions about hiring internal staff versus contracting. The committee withdrew the initial motion and referred the transfer to the finance and operations subcommittee for vetting.

The committee considered a proposed budget transfer to move funds from teacher salaries to contracted services to hire one registered behavior technician (RBT) for each of Donahue, Morgan and STEM to support the ABL program.

A committee member raised concerns about taking money from teacher salaries and asked why internal candidates (behavior technicians or BTs…

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