With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff,
including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.
As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff —
including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.
Not exact matches
On Friday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced $ 10.9 million in new grants for 68 Advantage After
School Programs (AASPs) across New York State,
including grants to the following Bronx organizations: Bronx House, Children's Aid Society, Riverdale Community Center and SCAN - NY Volunteer Parent
Aides Association.
With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state
school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts,
including many on Long Island.
The candidates
include the Rev. Edward Mulraine of Mount Vernon, pastor of the city's Unity Baptist Tabernacle; Pamela Hamilton - Johnson, a former
school board president in the Bronx; Jamaal Bailey, an
aide to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronxite; and Dr. Alvin Ponder, a politically active physician from the Bronx.
A new report from researchers at James Cook University, published in the Australian Journal of Education, looks at the processes employed by
schools to support these children during a parental deployment,
including the work conducted by Defence
School Transition
Aides (DSTA).
[content block] Wise principals recognize that secretaries, custodians, food service workers, bus drivers, classroom and playground
aides, and extended - day employees are all important members of a
school's community relations team; and those principals
include all family members in all communications.
Today the
school population has been sliced to 2,500, yet Jamaica High now has eight deans (myself
included), who devote much of their time to disciplinary issues; an assistant principal for security; two secretaries, one part time, one full time; and a
school aide assigned just to the dean's office.
K — 12
schooling already employs a large number of
school - based personnel who are not teachers; support staff (
including aides, librarians, guidance counselors, and so forth) account for about 30 percent of
school employees.
Our support staff
includes: Office Administrators, Cafeteria and Custodial Staff, Teacher's
Aides, Magnet Coordinator, Resource Specialist,
School Psychologist, Speech and Language Therapist, Adapted PE Teacher, Teacher for the Physically Disabled, Enrichment Teachers, and a Librarian.
Provision of Title I Services (2002) examines the extent to which changes in Title I legislation have helped promote
school improvement activities, as well as the provision of instructional services
including extended time, use of pullout and in - class instruction, use of teacher
aides; and coordination of services for special population students.
Evaluation Brief: Provision of Title I Services (2002) examines the extent to which changes in Title I legislation have helped promote
school improvement activities, as well as the provision of instructional services
including extended time, use of pullout and in - class instruction, use of teacher
aides; and coordination of services for special population students.
According to the Obama administration, 300,000 local education jobs,
including teachers,
school aides and support staff, were lost between June 2009 and August 2012, contributing to larger class sizes.
Other professionals and paraprofessionals (inside and outside the
school),
including but not limited to, teachers, principals, specialist teachers, pre-service teachers, industry partners, education assistants and teachers
aides.
On the other hand, the public
schools won't have to bear the cost of educating those students, but will still be able to
include them in enrollment counts used to determine how much state
aide they get and how much in property taxes they can levy, according to the LFB.
Reading intervention services may
include the use of: special reading teachers; trained
aides; volunteer tutors under the supervision of a certified teacher; computer - based reading tutorial programs;
aides to instruct in - class groups while the teacher provides direct instruction to the students who need extra assistance; and extended instructional time in the
school day or
school year for these students.
School Board President Monica Garcia's latest campaign finance statement
includes some familiar names —
including a $ 1,000 contribution from LAUSD Deputy Superintendent of Instruction Jaime Aquino, a top
aide to Superintendent John Deasy.
It's a category that can
include teacher
aides, guidance counselors, librarians,
school counselors, custodians, food - service personnel, mechanics, and even transportation workers.
6) Likewise, when a parent (and sending district
school psychologist) ask repeatedly what the kindergarten staff: student ratio is, absent 1:1
aides, it is unwise to then show these visitors the K classroom with 13 kids, one teacher staring into her desk, and 3
aides including a 1:1 when you'd said there would never be more than 12 kids and a 3:1 ratio.
The public documents that the CT Post acquired show that the people involved in the wheeling and dealing
included Barnes, Commissioner Pryor, Pryor's chief of staff, Adam Goldfarb; former Bridgeport
School Superintendent John Ramos, Mayor Bill Finch and some of Finch's top
aides.
Watch that exchange below: An
aide to Murray subsequently said this amounted to a commitment that «all students in
schools receiving federal funds should be protected under our nation's civil rights laws,
including the full range of Title IX and IDEA.»
The job titles
include:
School Nurses, Health
Aides, Health Attendants, Physical Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapy Assistants
We represent 50,000 members statewide,
including public
school teachers and others directly involved in classroom teaching or teaching support,
including librarians, counselors and teacher
aides.
Other
school staff can help collect KIDS observations,
including art, music, physical education teachers,
aides and monitors, and feel more engaged in each child's development.
Effective PreK - 3rd provides: High - quality and unified learning in well - staffed classrooms; well - prepared teachers and
aides to educate children in the 3 - 8 age range; supportive
school district policies; strong principal leadership that
includes supporting professional development time for teachers to plan for effective coordination across and between grades; and
includes families and communities that share accountability with PreK - 3rd
schools for children's educational success.
«Because of the failed leadership in Tallahassee, Hillsborough County
schools are having to cut teachers,
including bilingual classroom
aides, and can't even afford to repair air conditioning in certain
schools — while brand new for - profit
schools are being funded and built with tax dollars that should be going to our public
schools,» Cruz said.
The job cuts Cruz referenced are detailed in a Tampa Bay Times article on Hillsborough County
Schools» $ 38.2 million budget shortfall for next
school year, which caused the district to cut 800 jobs,
including 220 elementary
school teachers, 116 custodial workers and 106 bilingual classroom
aides.
In June, the district closed 24
schools and laid off 3,783 employees,
including 127 assistant principals, 646 teachers and more than 1,200
aides, leaving no one even to answer phones.
The recent dedication rally for a new
school on Chicago's working - class Southwest Side drew a long list of political heavyweights,
including the governor, the Illinois Senate's top Republican and some of the mayor's highest - ranking Latino
aides...
In addition, you can
include a separate section for relevant experience, such as student teaching while in college, working as a teacher's
aide or substitute prior to receiving certification and even non-teaching positions, such as working as a summer camp counselor, volunteering with a children's program or working in another capacity at a
school.
Given the strong empirical support for adaptations of filial models,
including Child - Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)(Landreth & Bratton, 2006) for use with teachers, teacher's
aides, and even high
school students, I decided to adapt Landreth & Bratton's CPRT 10 session model for use with senior citizen volunteers.