I think you are within your rights to ask. They may not be able to break it all down. That amount seems reasonable.
Our distict pays ,000 to send my son to a public school about 6 miles from where we live. Our district has NO programs for Special Needs. I do not have the costs broken down but, my son is bused back and forth, he has a 1:1, he receives OT, and Speech and he is in a full day ABA program. I would not want a low budget program I feel you get what you pay for. Last year he went to a diffferent district and it was horrible, this year the difference is night and day.
Are you pleased with your son's program?
I would like the student teacher ratio to be lower than it is right now. And for that amount you would think he would get individual ST.He is in a class with 13 student with one teacher and 1-2 aides.My ds is in a class with 7 other children and there is a lead teacher, and two paras. In addition, an OT comes in a few times a week and the speech pathologist as well. Generally there are 4 people in the classroom for at least part of the day. So 13 kids seems high to me... Group speech is the way that our school district is going - which is fine for my son as he mainly need the social skills stuff. His vocabulary and articulation are fine. However, for a child who needs help in those areas - I think individual ST are essential as well. Unfortunately, I think the trend is to move toward group ST. The speech pathologist in my ds' class often uses him as a role model for working on certain sounds - which has been great for ds as then he can be seen as a leader and it builds his confidence. Usually he is behind other kids and in this area he isn't...
I would definitely check into getting him other services....
Hello...I just recently found out that my son's school district is paying ,000 for him per school year. My question is is it within my rights to ask EXACTLY where that money is going? He is in kindegarten in a DD class..has group OT & ST X2/wk... I just think they have enough money to do more for him than they are.It's pretty easy to figure out where the money is going. The school figures out how much it spends per child based on that child's portion of what that classroom costs plus the portion of the therapists' salaries and benefits that represent the amount of that therapist's time the particular child uses. So, your child's education is one thirteenth the salary and benefits of one teacher and two aides plus the cost to provide classroom space and the utilities costs for that room, plus a proportionate share of what it costs to run and maintain the school and the grounds plus the aforementioned costs of therapies. If your son's education is costing only ,000, that's a bargain. In our neck of the woods, the average, general ed child costs the district AT LEAST ,000 per year. It costs districts around here an average of ,000 per year per special ed child, tho it ranges from about ,000 to well over 0,000. Oh, yes, I forgot that those figures include transportation costs and insurance costs. Many special education children cost WAY more to transport because fewer kids share the cost of the bus itself, the gas, the maintenance, the bus drive and the matron. If there are, say, 12 kids on the minibus versus 24 kids on the big bus, the cost is roughly double for the special ed kids. In practice, I think it's more than double.
check with your special ed dept. in pa autistic classes can only have 8 children. there are laws as to how many children can be in spec ed classes. money also goes to transportation. costs 5,000 in pa for disabled child to be transported to school.