Who runs Kansas SPED Tutor Jobs

SpecialEdResource, the employer

SpecialEdResource, also written Special Ed Resource or SER, was founded in 2014 by Luke and Suzie Dalien and is based near Phoenix, Arizona. It employs special education teachers in a part-time, remote W-2 role: live, one-on-one online tutoring. If you tutor with us, you have a real person you can text or email when something comes up. We are truly a family that works hard to support one another.

• Name: SpecialEdResource (also Special Ed Resource; SER)
• Legal name: Special Education Resource LLC
• Founded: 2014
• Founders: Luke and Suzie Dalien
• Based: near Phoenix, Arizona
• Website: specialedresource.com
• Questions about an application you’ve sent: studentsuccess@specialedresource.com
• Where tutors can live: SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors who live in 15 states, Kansas among them.

How this site, the hiring site and specialedresource.com fit together

• kansasspedtutorjobs.com (this site) describes the tutoring job for teachers who live in Kansas. It also has guides to Kansas teacher topics: working after retirement under KPERS, Kansas teaching licenses and special education endorsements, teacher salaries, and Social Security. It has no form (see the privacy page).
• hiring.specialedresource.com is where you apply. Every Apply button on this site opens it, and the application takes about two minutes. The same application is used in all 15 states where SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors. What happens after you apply is on How it works. Interview invitations follow team review. Your first interview is with Erin, and the second is with Luke Dalien, one of SpecialEdResource’s founders.
• specialedresource.com is SpecialEdResource’s main website.

Why the guides cover Kansas rules

The rules a teacher may want to check before taking a part-time job sit with different bodies. Rules for retirees of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) who go back to work are set by Kansas law, and KPERS explains them on its Working After Retirement page and in its Membership Guide for KPERS 1 and KPERS 2 Members. Kansas teaching licenses are issued by the Kansas State Board of Education under its own regulations, and the Teacher Licensure team of the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) answers questions about them. The Social Security earnings test is federal law, applied by the Social Security Administration. The guides gather those rules in one place, explain them in plain English, and quote the agencies and laws that set them.

How we check what we publish

• Official sources, quoted. Rules and numbers come from the bodies that set or publish them: the Kansas State Board of Education and its regulations (K.A.R. 91-1), and the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE); the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) and its regulations (K.A.R. agency 80, such as K.A.R. 80-1-7); Kansas statutes, such as K.S.A. 74-4902 and 74-4914 on KPERS and K.S.A. 72-2228 on negotiating teacher pay; the Social Security Administration and federal laws and rules published on govinfo.gov, such as the Social Security Fairness Act and the time zone rule, 49 CFR 71.7(d); the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and its May 2025 pay estimates; the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), whose data on teachers and Social Security was published in 2019; and other public agencies where a page needs them. When the exact words of a rule decide something, the guide quotes them and says where they come from. The sources behind each guide are named on the guide itself.
• AI use. The guides are drafted with AI help. Each rule and figure from a public agency is then checked against the source the guide cites.
• Checked dates. Each guide gives the date its facts were last checked against their sources; that date changes only after a new check.
• Real tutors only. We publish a tutor’s first name, photo or words only with that tutor’s permission, and never use stock photos or invented quotes in their place.
• Not advice. The guides explain rules in general. How a rule applies to you is for KPERS, KSDE or the Social Security Administration to say, so confirm your own case with them.