Special-ed ruling may mean teacher cutbacks - Cleveland.com:
"If the Cleveland schools are forced to hire large numbers of special-education teachers, mainstream teachers will be axed to make room on the payroll, Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders says.
An arbitrator has ruled that, under union contract, the district must assign both a general-education teacher and special-education teacher to every class that mixes students with disabilities and other children. That could require hiring up to six teachers per building, the union estimates.
At a school board meeting Tuesday, Sanders said the hires would come at the expense of general-education teachers."
"If the Cleveland schools are forced to hire large numbers of special-education teachers, mainstream teachers will be axed to make room on the payroll, Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders says.
An arbitrator has ruled that, under union contract, the district must assign both a general-education teacher and special-education teacher to every class that mixes students with disabilities and other children. That could require hiring up to six teachers per building, the union estimates.
At a school board meeting Tuesday, Sanders said the hires would come at the expense of general-education teachers."