Tara Gardner highlights network staff compensation and contract flexibility
Gardner notes network staff are also underpaid, affecting quality. She also calls for flexibility in contracting to change seat counts as communities change.
And I'll add specifically as it relates to network staff, the compensation issue isn't just with teachers in classrooms.
It's across the network staff is underpaid as well.
And when you speak to quality, being able to support providers in their homes, the quality of the staff that you can attract and retain is really, really important.
Someone, I think...
Emily Liss and Deputy Chancellor Phillips mentioned earlier, building in flexibility to contracting is also really important.
As communities change over the life of a contract, changing contracted seats where providers are is really, really important to the success of an extended term grant as well, contract as well.