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[quote=Anonymous]I am from Vermont and here is what I think. In Vermont they are really lacking in teachers, especially good teachers, and especially specialized teachers for this and other things like foreign language and upper-level math and science. And a declining child population has made school budgets tight. So they leaned on paraprofessionals with the idea that a lot of personal attention would be helpful, but also because they were so lacking in teachers. Turns out it hasn't gone so well, so they've made a real effort to switch back to credentialed teachers. So Vermont is becoming more like most states in that way. It's not a model that could be applied to a school district that wasn't already making the error of using too many paras and not enough teachers. [/quote]
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