[Tim Walsh]

Originally Posted by milt

Meantime, she should take some classes or training. Special ed teachers are in demand. A leg up on the group of unemployed can be useful.

I'm not sure about the other coast, but here SpEd teachers are the bottom of the totem pole at just about every school. For instance my wife's a Deaf Education teacher in a rural county and travels from school to school. They've manipulated her schedule to put the minimum amount of miles "on the clock" at the expense of "off the clock" mileage. Last year she was averaging ~600 miles a week, of those 200 were legitimate commuting miles and the other 400 between schools. This year it's opposite, ~400 nonpaid, 200 paid.