{"id":13792,"date":"2017-06-22T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/new\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:07:07","slug":"teacher-issues-staffing-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/teacher-issues-staffing-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Issues: STAFFING SHORTAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Teacher%20Issues%3A%20STAFFING%20SHORTAGES\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Kristen:\u00a0 I am a teacher and I\u2019m concerned because in my district special education classrooms are often under staffed due to staffing shortages. I teach in a self contained preschool classroom. Last year my para educator was out sick for many school days and I was on my own. I\u2019ve expressed my concerns for student safety but my principal and our district is still under staffing us. Is there any law that addresses class size for students with special needs? Contractually, with our unions the ration is 2 adults for every 8 students with IEPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen:\u00a0 I am a teacher and I\u2019m concerned because in my district special education classrooms are often under staffed due to staffing shortages. I teach in a self contained preschool <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/teacher-issues-staffing-shortages\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1353],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-t"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13793,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/13793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}