Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of City Schools
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of (New York) City Schools
For years, top Manhattan public schools have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from parents to independently hire assistants to help teachers with reading, writing, tying shoelaces or supervising recess. But after a complaint by the city’s powerful teachers union, the Bloomberg administration has ordered an end to the makeshift practice.