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Teachers and parents urge action on substitute shortages and special-education secretarial staffing
Summary
Multiple teachers and parents used public forum to press the board to address daily substitute-teacher shortages and to seek enforcement of a contract provision requiring a dedicated special-education secretary at schools with large SPED enrollments.
Teachers, parents and school staff pressed the Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education on April 10 to address two recurring operational problems: chronic shortages of substitute teachers and the apparent absence of a dedicated special-education secretary at Santa Fe High.
"On any given day, we have at least 10 teacher absences, and most of these go unfilled," Jennifer Warren, a first-grade teacher at Nina Otero Community School, told the board during the public forum. "That leaves us splitting classes, taking students who aren't even at our grade level, into our classrooms or having to give up our own very valuable prep time. Please, this is not sustainable."
Multiple speakers described the same symptom:…
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