Beware of the 3rd Largest School District within the US.
It's been reported that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is on a mission to hire more school social workers to address the growing need for therapeutic services for both the general and special education population. Here's the thing: CPS will lose out on school social work talent, both short- and long-term for the following reasons: Narrowness of responsibilities: A school social worker's primary duties within CPS revolve around special education students. One being psycho-social assessments for IEP/504 initials and reveals. The other is providing therapeutic services to the students found eligible from these assessments. That's it. IEP repots are like TPS reports. If you don't hit your monthly 80% mark for therapeutic services your manager is gonna bark at you. Not to mention the limited amount of assessments that school social workers are allowed to use (SDQ, SISS, BOSS -- seriously never used BOSS once; many social workers just use SDQ; usage of SISS is like s...