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Total Education Solutions

I have to concur with "blank (Current Employee)"'s review of TES. This is such a terrible organization to work for. It made me chuckle to see TES touts itself as anything but atrocious. You know how you went into teaching for the kids, to make the world better, and because you're passionate about what you do? Well at TES, you are working for a company that is charging a school district $50 an hour to pay you a small portion of that, so they can pocket about 65% of it. This is the epitome of what is wrong with our education system. Your school not scoring high enough? Ok. We will give a COMPANY twice as much money to do what TEACHERS should be doing, by hiring teachers anyway, who are no more qualified than the teachers already in place in the school. Beware of this company, and any other "educational services" company. This truly is capitalism at its finest, or worst. And this organization sure acts like a business, not an educational institution. As long as you are making their customers happy, you will be considered doing a fine job, regardless of your actual teaching performance. Vice versa, you will be considered to be doing poorly if you don't make the customer happy, but are a fabulous teacher, demonstrated by student performance.

At TES there is lots of gossip, from the top down, no support whatsoever, management is non-existent, except to ream you out about asking a question, and you are completely ignored for the entire school year, until at the end of the year you receive a review that docks your ability to please the "customer", with it never being brought to your attention the entire school year. Now, as an educator, I have a real issue with any company that rates me on my ability to please the customer, but does not grade me in any manner on my ability to teach children.

Please, unless you absolutely positively need a part time job with no benefits whatsoever, where you will be selling your soul so a company can make a buck on our broken education system, please keep looking!

TES contracts with schools to provide special education and related services (including school psychological services).   Schools can include private, public & community schools, but community (Charter) schools hold the majority of contracts.  In my opinion, coming to terms with this is the hardest part of the job.  It can be difficulty to go from working in a public school where compliance with ODE & IDEA Standards is vehemently done to a charter school where there's high staff turnover a& many are uninformed to ODE & IDEA requirements.  However, with the help of supportive supervisors, it's been rewarding to work within these schools to help better inform parents & staff.

I came to TES after an extended absence to grow and care for our young family.  My #1 priority in returning to the workforce was that I find a position in which I could not only use my professional skills, but also continue to meet our family's needs at home.  I started as a part-time employee for several months to acclimate to the intricacies of serving charter schools while getting reacquainted with assessment materials that had been updated during my absence.  I was intrigued to learn that my work did not necessitate that I be on-site, nor be completed during the regular school day.  Although there are components of a School Psychologist position that require you to be on-site during the school day, TES supports their staff to complete their work off-site.  I've written many reports sitting at a child's sporting event, early in the morning or late at night. Employees log their work time daily and are paid for every minute they work.  I'm wrapping up my 3rd school year of full-time employment with TES.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I can only speak for the Troy MI location but this place was incredibly toxic. The management was very unprofessional and could not be trusted, yet they claimed ‘transparency’. We had to drive between the clinic and client’s homes and I was told that I would receive my hourly pay during the commute time. It was not until I looked through my pay stub that I noticed I was receiving less than half of my hourly rate for the commutes. There were days I would drive over 50 miles beyond my commute to the clinic, spending hours of my life every week to receive less than half pay. When I addressed management about this, the rhetoric was that I should be grateful to them for paying me anything for my time. 

When I decided to move on, the management of this location literally threatened me that the ABA community was small and it would spread quickly that I am difficult to work with. This is the only place I have worked in the field thus far and consistently showed up to work putting in my all. Now I am being told the fact that they could not show the slightest bit of appreciation to their employees, that they will try to obstruct my career. 


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with poor management, last minute cancellations (as in already driving to work to be told to go home), driving between clients homes, long hours which you are not getting paid for (working 9am to 7pm but getting paid for 8 hours).

The company only looks out for itself and takes short cuts wherever they can. Employees are not financially stable in an RBT position due to clients calling off resulting in a loss of hours that cannot be made up and managements inability to retain clients. Also, it is often that full time employees do not have enough hours to reflect full time employment. This can become an issue not only financially, but also with being able to maintain eligibility for health insurance. Management is unprofessional, lacks transparency, and is unable to effectively communicate with staff. The company’s states that it strives to achieve 100% employee satisfaction, however, management does not live this out. Management treats employees as if they are disposable and imcompetent, failing to attempt to reasonably resolve the concerns of employees, give basic feedback, or answer clarifying questions. The lack of communication and teaching results in mistakes, to which supervisors fail to take responsibility for. They seek to place blame on the employees below them. Management will take whatever steps necessary to assure that blame and repercussion is placed on their lower level employees, rather than take the proper steps to allvieate the problem. Avoid this company if you are seeking a job in ABA.

I love working this job, I gain experience and I learn during every session with a client. Some of my BCBAs are extremely helpful when it comes to supporting me with a clients. One of my BCBAs seems to be working practically unsupervised and provides VERY minimal support to me with their clients. It has been two months since they told me that they would bring me a binder with a treatment plan for one of my clients, I still have not received this binder. For another one of my clients, she brought me very few supplies after I had been working with this client without supplies for two months. I am not compensated for any drive time to pick up supplies from our clinic even if I need the supplies and my BCBA will not bring them to me. Additionally, this company is scamming me by not compensating me for drive time. I drive 40 minutes to clients houses, since I am a full time student I will sometimes only see one client a day. If I only see one client, I am NOT COMPENSATED FOR FORTY MINUTES OF DRIVING. GAS IS EXPENSIVE, THE PRICES ARE ONLY GOING UP AND I AM GOING BROKE WORKING THIS JOB. If you are looking for a full time position, Total Ed is a great place to work. However, DO NOT WORK THERE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE AND AS A STUDENT THEY ARE SCAMMING COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH THIS JOB.  

This company will bleed their staff dry and then ask for more without ever giving a positive comment. The leadership is not proactive. Communication from superiors is vague and incoherent in opposition to the needs of the students. My co-workers are the best part of the job. They work tirelessly and have no support at all from the company if there is a disagreement or complaint from the placement school. The demands of the company are based on gossip and more often than not in opposition to what the staff is being told to do by the school. There is no consistency in directors or staff. The brightest and best are treated the worst. This company is more like a bureaucracy than a company which should be educationally and child centered. There are only negative comments about undocumented, contrived "mistakes" which are usually mistakes made by the directors as they come and go; and then blamed on the staff. There are no opportunities for advancement. Anything you were taught was the right thing to do is wrong with them in this world of opposites. There is no integrity and if the company has to lie to save itself then that is what it does.

I am an intervention specialist at Total Education Solutions. It is a stressful environment due to the clientele; however, it is the most rewarding job there is. To see the overall growth and progress of your students is an incredibly special experience. Seeing your coworkers grow in the field and take on more responsibility gives you your own sense of encouragement to be better. I see some posts saying that the work place is full of drama and there are managers that have big egos. But my response to that would be that most drama follows those who are in it. When your employees have responsibilities to take care of, there is no time for drama. We are preoccupied with teaching, taking data, creating materials; centering our day around our students and not others. My managers have done nothing but support me. Constantly ask what I need, giving me resources, etc. Communication is the only way to express your needs, and that is the main key to collaboration in our field. Our main problem at this school is staffing, and that comes with the high demand of the special education field, and not the incompetence of our employers. Apply here and start loving your job!


Total Education Solutions is a place where I started my career. I gained valuable experience. Nevertheless, TES comes in at a cool second place to one of the worst job related experiences I’ve ever had. On a daily basis, my manager displayed his inability to manage. In addition, he was a presumed sexist. He showed preferential treatment to male employees. This particular manager created a toxic environment by behaving in a passive-aggressive manner, gaslighting, and attempting to sullying the reputation of his female employees. Even as awful as he was to work with, the Human Resources Director was the biggest offender. She is an arrogant, spiteful, and vindictive individual. This is a woman who doesn’t care about treating certain employees with respect, because it is all personal to her. If you speak up for yourself and/or disagree with her, then there are consequences. One would think that an environment that specializes in helping those with disabilities would show more humanity to others. However, that was not the experience I had at TES. I also observed how poorly other employees were treated by HR. Based on 

TES is a great place to work if you are both an intervention specialist and a BCBA. I am an intervention specialist and have ABA experience yet I struggle daily. The staff in my classroom are the only help I have. Behavior support has more important things to do, administrators are busy doing who knows what, and with staff constantly leaving we don’t have enough aides as it is to have extra help. My students are 1-on-1 for the most part with behaviors. Holidays are paid and staff is able to earn more vacation time each paycheck. If you don’t have vacation time, you won’t get paid for breaks (spring break, Christmas break, a few weeks over the summer and all fridays over the summer). Teachers are paid hourly and it’s a decent rate, but not when you don’t have a consistent paycheck. I enjoy my classroom and the people I work with. If I didn’t, I would have no other reason to stay.

I have about 10 years of experience as a school psychologist and for the 2018-19 school year, I worked for TES. I did not want to review the company until I had a whole school year under my belt. I have worked for other companies (“contract companies”) and districts prior to TES and I have a lot to compare it to. Also, I am writing this review because I want to write it - no one has ever asked me to write a review. 

With that said, I have never been happier as an educational professional. My professional opinion is valued and I am learning a ton from my colleagues and especially my supervisors. My supervisors provide the professional and expert support that is rarely found elsewhere. They also ask for and value my opinion and expertise which makes me feel valued as a professional. I am on a strong team of school psychologists and can turn to them (and have) when needed. When I ask for support or guidance, I receive a response within 24 hours (typically way less). 

TES is the real deal and I love working for them.

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Speech language pathologist 44 salaries reported	$43.02 per hour
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Teaching assistant 79 salaries reported	$20.05 per hour
School psychologist 35 salaries reported	$45.05 per hour
Physical therapist 20 salaries reported	$48.36 per hour

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