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Teacher Assistant Jobs In Jeopardy

By Andrew Tie
Published July 22, 2015 at 12:19 PM EDT
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Reema Khrais

Teacher assistant positions in North Carolina have been cut steadily in recent years. And the North Carolina Senate's proposed budget eliminates funding for about 8,500 more TAs in order to hire more teachers.

Teacher assistants and researchers are split on the effectiveness of TAs. 

Host Frank Stasio talks to WUNC reporter ReemaKhraisabout the state of teacher assistant jobs.

She also gives us the latest on the court’s review of the Leandro Case, a 1994 lawsuit about education equality in the state.

PoliticsThe State of ThingsTeacher Assistants2015 NC LegislatureReema KhraisLeandro CaseHoward Manning
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Will Michaels is WUNC's Weekend Host and Reporter.
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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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