NEW BEDFORD — With roughly one month left to go before summer break, New Bedford Public Schools paraprofessionals have a new contract before the end of the school year as union members had hoped. "We ...

On a typical school day, Jennifer Saxton tends to students' medical needs. The 34-year-old health paraprofessional, or nurse, at West Gate K-8 in Port St. Lucie would spend her days ensuring students ...

Baltimore City Public Schools interim CEO Charlene Boston reversed a decision Thursday transferring 190 paraprofessionals to meet the No Child Left Behind requirement to provide highly qualified ...

Poudre School District has never started a year like this, in more ways than one. Students are masked up and back in classrooms. Safety protocols are different than last year but remain in place.

But these workers—crucial in assuring that school inclusion happens for students receiving special education—often are left out of the loop when it comes to professional development. Change is ...

Two dozen special education aides working in a local school district are being told they must show proof they have met a two-decade-old set of federal and state education requirements or their jobs ...