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Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc. (PHI) is a non-profit organization based in New York City that works to improve long-term services and supports for elders and individuals with disabilities, as well as improve the job quality of the direct-care workers who provide those services whether in people's homes or in nursing homes and other institutional facilities.
A paraprofessional educator, alternatively known as a paraeducator, para, instructional assistant, educational assistant, teacher's aide or classroom assistant, is a teaching-related position within a school generally responsible for specialized or concentrated assistance for students in elementary and secondary schools.
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
A New York state school district employee has been arrested and accused of killing her older sister, whose body was pulled from a river earlier this week.. Jamie J. Busch, 53, of Honeoye Falls ...
Paraprofessionals are usually limited in schools, working in resource management, but when given the opportunity they can help students greatly through monitoring and tutoring. [9] Despite being promoted in fields, paraprofessionals perform low-status function and occupy "the lowest level in the professional caste system" because of their ...
The New York Specialized High School Institute (SHSI) is a free program run by the City of New York for middle school students with high test scores on citywide tests and high report card grades. The program's original intent was to expand the population of Black and Hispanic students by offering them test-taking tips and extra lessons.
Inclusion has different historical roots/background which may be integration of students with severe disabilities in the US (who may previously been excluded from schools or even lived in institutions) [7] [8] [9] or an inclusion model from Canada and the US (e.g., Syracuse University, New York) which is very popular with inclusion teachers who believe in participatory learning, cooperative ...
3 (Pledger v Janssen, et al.) APPEARANCES: (Continued) WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES, LLP BY: DIANE P. SULLIVAN, ESQUIRE ALLISON BROWN, ESQUIRE (admitted pro hac vice) 301 Carnegie Center, Suite 303 Princeton, New Jersey 08540 T: 609-986-1100 F: 212-310-8007 E-mail: diane.sullivan@weil.com E-mail: allison.brown@weil.com Counsel for Defendant Janssen 4