{"id":206087,"date":"2015-07-08T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=206087"},"modified":"2015-07-08T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:06:51","slug":"pss-seeks-special-needs-services-during-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pss-seeks-special-needs-services-during-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"PSS seeks special needs services during summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public School System has amended their pay differentials to help provide summer services for special needs students.<\/p>\n<p>Amended pay differentials for a \u201cspecial education psychologist,\u201d among others, were approved by the Board of Education in their last meeting, according to chair Herman Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>The special education psychologist would be 190-day employee. The psychologist is eligible for a summer pay differential based on a fee for service to special children who need psychological services during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>These services are: standard evaluation for special education eligibility at $1,200 per child; psychological evaluation on ability and achievement at $150 an hour; standard child development eligibility evaluation at $800; psychological counseling\/intervention at $125 an hour; and psychological consultation with providers at $150 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero told Saipan Tribune that PSS needs services during the summer but doesn&#8217;t have the staff they need to provide these services.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said PSS needs to provide these services according to federal guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>He said these tests identify services the child needs, for example.<\/p>\n<p>PSS has seen a shortage of special needs teachers, with teachers often facing overlapping responsibilities across grade levels at their schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public School System has amended their pay differentials to help provide summer services for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,2039,40,38],"class_list":["post-206087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-education-2","tag-herman-guerrero","tag-pss","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}