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Recruitment efforts for paraprofessionals

2:12:48

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Council Member Rita Joseph inquired about the DOE's efforts to recruit paraprofessionals. The DOE representative explained their recruitment strategies, including:

Open survey on their website for interested applicants
Borough-based job fairs (7 held in the last 2 months)
Nearly 2,000 new substitute para nominations in process
Almost 3,000 new substitute paras hired this year
Ongoing job fairs planned until May

Rita Joseph

2:12:48

In terms of workforce for paraprofessionals, what specific efforts is DOE doing to recruit paraprofessionals?

2:12:55

And if there's, teachers that have been accessed, is there room for them to come back?

2:12:58

And how do we cut the red tape on the hiring process?

UNKNOWN

2:13:17

Thank you, chair.

2:13:20

The for as far as the paraprofessionals go, we are actively recruiting on a daily basis.

2:13:27

We have an open survey on our website, that anyone who has an interest can apply on that site.

2:13:34

We have been holding borrower based job fairs.

2:13:38

We have had 7 in the last 2 months, which have resulted in, 2,000 almost 2,000 new substitute parent nominations.

2:13:49

They are going through the process right now.

2:13:51

We have already hired, this year almost 3,000 new substitute paras.

2:13:59

And we still have about, including the people we just nominated, about another 1,000 after that that are still in process.

2:14:08

So they are going through that process.

2:14:10

We expect them to be, available no later than than mid February.

2:14:17

And we continue we will continue to have these fairs until May.

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