New York, NY – The city will no longer allow parents to hire teaching assistants to work in public schools.
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The practice has gone on for years. Many parents feel the aides are needed to cope with overcrowding in well-regarded schools.
Following a union complaint, principals have been told that any aides must be Department of Education employees.
The New York Times says fundraising by parent groups has long raised questions of fairness. It has helped keep middle-class families in urban public schools. But it also can make it more difficult for schools in poor neighborhoods to compete.
Education officials and union leaders also say the practice of privately hiring aides raised security concerns.
what is your problem? the school does not provide them so the parents help out the schools should be happy they are not being billed for that!
I’m a yiddisha mamma and unfortunately my son has to go for some personal resons to public school, but we always provided him with a Jewish aid teacher to be with him all day, and I paid from my pocket all his wages, now with this new rule how will I keep my son to stay Jewish?
Why dos this city need to poke their noses into everyone’s private mater?
Folks, you elect Liberal politicians, then are shocked when YOU are the ones who suffer from the Liberal abuses.
Its the unions that control NY who are the problem, they will NOT let anyone else have a job, even to the detriment of the children and even if the parents pay for the workers…. Only Unions ….
The Unions are the main problem of the dying NYC educational system, and of the rest of eduecation in the united States. And many othe rindustries …..