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Special education staffing baseline presented; board presses on agency hires and real‑time tracking
Summary
District special education leaders presented a new site‑level staffing system and baseline numbers; trustees asked how many positions are filled by nonpublic agency (NPA) hires, how the district can deploy staff in real time, and what fiscal changes are recommended.
District staff presented a new, site‑based staffing tracker for special education at the Jan. 15 meeting, and trustees used the presentation to press for next steps linking staffing to student outcomes and fiscal responsibility.
Jennifer Nicholson, director of special education, and Alex Potapenko, coordinator, described a Google Sheets‑based system that centralizes position counts, assignments and FTE calculations for every school. The team showed examples from early childhood (SEED at Horace Mann),…
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