‘A glaring concern’: Chicago’s support staff substitute pool stretched thin amid pandemic
May 25, 2022 — This school year has trained a spotlight on a dearth of substitute teachers in Chicago and beyond. Amid increasingly stressful work and relatively low pay, many paraprofessionals and other school support staff members have been swept up in the Great Resignation, said Ritu Chopra, the executive director of the Paraprofessional Research and Resource Center at the University of Colorado Denver.