The top priority for the state's largest nurses» union — what supporters call a «safe staffing» law — is facing new pressure from a coalition of business groups, hospitals and some nurses who
say staffing ratios are the wrong prescription for New York hospitals.
Superintendent David Snead
said that while Detroit public high schools are overstaffed, some elementary and middle schools have
staffing shortages, with student - teacher
ratios of up to 35 to 1.