With less than four weeks before the start of the next school year, more than 200 special education paraprofessional positions in West Contra Costa Unified School District – about 33% – are unfilled, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Teacher shortages are making the start of the school year hard across the country. Special education departments, they are dealing with the effects of a lack of ...

Bethany Clarke, 29, is a paraprofessional based in Rochester, New Hampshire. She started working in special education in schools in February 2021 to supplement her income. The work can be draining, ...

NASHUA – Three dozen special education paraprofessionals should be heading to city schools soon to help meet student needs. This week, school board members authorized spending $395,080 to hire 36 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. For the past 22 years, Debra Tew has worked with middle school students as a paraprofessional.

Misericordia University and the Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 are starting an apprenticeship-style program for special education paraprofessionals to become certified teachers while still working ...

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- For the better part of two decades, paraprofessional Patricia Volk has been working in a Brooklyn School special education classroom. Her efforts were recently recognized by the ...

LA FARGE, Wis. (WKBT) — A La Farge paraprofessional was honored Thursday for her contribution to special education in our area. Amanda Nemec has worked in La Farge for seven years. She was named a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A TikTok out of Tucson has gotten 1.2 million views with a paraprofessional claiming he was left alone to teach a classroom of special education students. According to TUSD, the ...

NEW BEDFORD — Members of the New Bedford Federation of Paraprofessionals/AFT 2378 say the city school district is in violation relative to many students' individualized education plans — or IEPs — ...

Nan Peters has been working as a paraprofessional in Rochester for nearly 40 years, and the shortage of workers today is about the worst she's ever seen. Peters was one of several paraprofessionals ...