Additional Education Specialist Services (AESS)

Definition

“AESS” is one of the many educational choices that parents/ESs can choose from to put together an individual educational program using available instructional funding. Choosing the AESS option increases the involvement of the ES in a student's education, over and above the basic ES Job, by contract with the parent/student. AESS payment to an ES is separate from the regular ES pay.

Requirements

• Each ES must be willing to service up to 5 AESS students if asked to do so by their families.
• The AESS contract must be completed each year, even if the student was AESS the previous year and no changes are being made.
• The contract can be started or stopped at any time.
• An AESS contract cannot be chosen if there is not enough instructional funding available for the Parent/ES to make that choice.
• An AESS contract should not be chosen if the student has greater need for other educational services.
• AESS contracts are specific to one ES and one parent for one student. If an AESS student transfers to a new ES, a new contract must be completed in order for the ES to be properly paid.
• ESs who work with their own children as students in the charter school, cannot complete an AESS contract for them, as that could be a conflict of interest.
• Not having an AESS contract with a student does not release an ES from providing the best possible education for each of their students to the best of their ability (See ES Job Description for specific duties).

Choices
See additional handbook documents relating to each of these individual choices:
AESS A
AESS B
AESS C