{"id":13043,"date":"2019-03-11T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:50:22","slug":"ritu-chopra-quoted-in-chalkbeat-about-training-and-supervision-of-paraprofessionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2019\/03\/11\/ritu-chopra-quoted-in-chalkbeat-about-training-and-supervision-of-paraprofessionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritu Chopra quoted in Chalkbeat about Training and Supervision of Paraprofessionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ritu Chopra, executive director of the PARAprofessional Resource and Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver, said one of the biggest issues in the broader special education field is paraprofessionals\u2019 lack of training and the fact that they are inadequately supervised by licensed teachers.<\/p>\n<p>She said federal and state laws are lax on those fronts, leaving individual school districts with significant leeway in how they use and oversee paras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very important members of the team, but they are not teachers,\u201d Chopra said. Too often, \u201cParas are being given too much responsibility beyond the scope of their legal and ethical role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/posts\/co\/2019\/03\/08\/a-day-in-the-life-of-miss-wendy-a-foot-soldier-for-special-education\/\">[Check out the full article on Chalkbeat]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritu Chopra, executive director of the PARAprofessional Resource and Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver, said one of the biggest issues in the broader special education field is paraprofessionals\u2019 lack of training and the fact that they are inadequately supervised by licensed teachers. She said federal and state laws are lax on those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":13044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}