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Teachers, parents and staff urge Corvallis School Board to restore counselor positions as consolidation adds student needs
Summary
Multiple teachers, educational assistants and parents told the Corvallis School Board in public comment that consolidation and shifts in grade assignments will increase student-to-counselor caseloads and risk the district’s ability to meet mental-health needs; speakers asked the board to restore counselor FTE and prioritize staffing by student need.
An array of Garfield Elementary teachers, educational assistants and community members told the Corvallis School Board on April 7 that cuts to counselor full-time equivalents and school consolidation will worsen students’ access to mental-health support.
"Counselors at the elementary level have gone from an average of 310 student per FTE to a predicted average of 396 students per FTE," said Annalie Haberman, a first-grade teacher at Garfield, citing the American School Counselor Association standard and urging the board to "advocate undoing the cuts that were made to counselor FTE in our district." She told the board the elementary…
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