SPEC Ed aid - Special Education Teacher Assistant Great Hearts Academies Employee Review

We strive to set a standard of excellence for our students with a focus on a rich liberal arts curriculum and emphasis on moral formation. Thank you for providing us with feedback on pay for our teaching assistants at Great Hearts. Hourly employees are not paid for breaks however they do have benefits and other items provided in their compensation package. We have been engaged in ongoing work on this issue for several years despite no significant funding increases from the states in which we operate, and simultaneously we must balance the need to maintain smaller class sizes, robust network resources, and safe and welcoming campuses. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. We appreciate your constructive comments about the culture at your Great Hearts academy, and we will share these concerns with our executive leadership. While we acknowledge that the culture of each academy may vary slightly, it is our goal to bring alignment and clarity to all academies around the mission to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty.