Allocation of time: How is psychologist time allocated to schools?
This is a question that is currently under discussion in your Article XXX Committee. It is a complicated process and I cannot say I have a clear understanding of it as of now. There are two ways in which schools obtain psychologist time. One is by buying it themselves. This part seems pretty simple. Schools spend some of their discretionary money to buy psychologist time for the schools own purposes. This process is out of the hands of Psyc Services, except that at least theoretically Psyc Services could say to schools that there is no psychologist time left for them to buy if the amount of time purchased by schools were to reach a level that interfered with Psyc Services’ ability to provide the basic allocation of time to schools. And of course, Psyc Services makes the ultimate decision about which individual psychologist is “sold” to which specific school. The other way schools obtain psychologist time is through the basic allocation. There is now a computer program that allocates ps
