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Trustees press district on substitute staffing, ask for campus-level data; district describes recruitment and recognition efforts
Summary
Trustees asked for campus-level qualitative data about pulling interventionists and paraprofessionals to cover classes. Human-resources staff described daily outreach to substitute pools, competitive pay ($100/day noncertified, $125/day certified), training and recognition efforts.
Trustees pressed La Porte ISD administrators March 11 about the frequency and effects of pulling interventionists and paraprofessionals into general classroom coverage and about ways to increase substitute teacher recruitment and retention.
Trustee Perez asked for data on how often interventionists or reading specialists are pulled from their duties to cover classrooms, and whether campuses sometimes combine classes or use student centers when shortages occur. "So on any of those instances, are we combining classes or having them in the student center or cafeteria?" Perez asked. He also asked whether paraprofessionals are used and whether the…
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