The city’s public school system is short more than 2,200 paraprofessionals, special education teachers and other staff who work with students with disabilities, the United Federation of Teachers found in a recent survey.
The union, which in recent weeks has raised concerns over the Department of Education’s failure to hire enough staff to provide required special-education services, recently surveyed schools to determine the severity of the shortages. The survey found that there were 2,264 vacancies among special-education staff across 474 schools. Over 80 percent of the city’s more than 1,600 public schools participated.
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