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Witnesses warn MIPE and policy memos could mask service gaps and strain provisional remedy; union calls to regularize thousands of assistant posts
Summary
Attorney and union testimony at the May 14 hearing described an automated MIPE process that can create provisional‑remedy authorizations without parents' consent, and a workforce model that leaves nearly 900 vacancies and thousands of irregular contracts, prompting calls to convert roles to regular status and improve pay and training.
In testimony to the Senate special commission, attorney Osvaldo Burgos Pérez said an electronic placement tool the department uses — identified at the hearing as MIPE — can automatically flag students as receiving remedio provisional once internal time limits pass, creating the statistical appearance that a child is served even when families were not informed or an adequate provider is in place. "Cuando pasan los treinta días... el sistema MIPEI automáticamente genera el remedio provisional," Burgos said.
Burgos and others said that practice risks understating service gaps to monitors of the class…
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