To address a shortage of paraprofessionals in the city’s public school system, the United Federation of Teachers joined several members of the City Council Thursday to push for the passage of legislation that would provide paras with annual payments of at least $10,000.
During a lengthy hearing held by the Council’s Committee on Education on the school system’s failure to provide legally-required special-education services to every student with disabilities, Department of Education officials acknowledged that there are 1,639 paraprofessional vacancies. The DOE officials said they have ramped up their efforts to hire paras, reducing the shortage from about 3,100.
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