Our students are suffering from learning loss due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many are still carrying trauma from the impact of the pandemic and require extra social and emotional help.

Paraeducators working in Michigan schools who aspire to become special education teachers can now achieve their goals through Alma College’s newly launched bachelor of arts program. Specifically ...

PORT ANGELES — A standing-room crowd of more than 100 paraeducators and their supporters filled a Port Angeles School District meeting to press the board for a 3.7 percent pay increase, remuneration ...

NASHUA – The Nashua Teachers’ Union is calling on the Board of Education to renew the Memorandum of Understanding that provided paraeducators with additional compensation of $25 per day. Union ...

Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids. But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, ...

A four-year contract calling for a 12% hourly wage increase in the first year has been approved by the District U-46 School Board and the District U-46 Educational Assistants union, which represents ...

In the summer of 2023, I worked at a local elementary school in Massachusetts as a paraeducator for a girl who had cerebral palsy. She was in a wheelchair 24/7 and needed help eating, writing, and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Public School District is making a plea to people in the community, asking them to consider working as a paraeducator in special education classrooms. District officials ...

In OPB’s latest story in a series on special education, we get an inside look at school employees who tend to be the closest to students with disabilities. This is the third story in a series on the ...

What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...

As a dedicated paraeducator with over two decades of experience, my journey began in 2001, initially at the middle school level and then moving to my current position at the high school. My career ...