Farmington public schools will be holding open interviews for special education paraprofessional positions. Interviews are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 4, and 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 5 ...

Jacquelyn Grisham works in District 7 as a paraprofessional in a classroom at Woodland Elementary School. Before 2025, ...

As a Springfield resident, taxpayer, and paraprofessional for more than 16 years, I raise my voice in support of a living wage for all paraprofessionals across the city. The Springfield School ...

Cambridge Public Schools parents and staff advocated for increased paraprofessional staffing — with no success — at a Tuesday School Committee meeting on the district’s fiscal year 2026 budget.

During her first full-time job as a paraprofessional, Priscilla Castro would wake up at 6:00 a.m. to work at a high school in Brooklyn, where she helped educate teenage mothers. She would then head to ...

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Paraprofessionals are known as the backbones of the classroom for their work supporting student learning and well-being. But they report feeling underpaid and overworked—a perennial issue that’s only ...

Staffing shortages continue to impact schools across the U.S., and vacancies are an increasingly common occurrence. Parents’ minds often jump first to teacher shortages, with significant numbers of ...

As back-to-school commences this fall, in addition to the students and teachers returning to school buildings, somewhere between 160,000 and 250,000–or more–folks will be joining those students and ...

New York City’s powerful teachers union is looking to boost pay for some special-education staffers without the Adams administration’s OK. On Thursday, the United Federation of Teachers joined about a ...