44:16 - 44:51
"The one, the one thing that may also be a flexibility thing for the board to consider is paraprofessionals as another support for direct classroom experiences."
“The one, the one thing that may also be a flexibility thing for the board to consider is paraprofessionals as another support for direct classroom experiences.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 44:16 – 44:51
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
Once those things happen. And also, this does give you the opportunity to allocate more now for the needs that you're currently seeing. Yeah, absolutely. The only other thing I would add, just as a side note, as we're talking about the substitute memo, is I do appreciate the flexibility that was added to the FTE to include, you know, the counselor allocation potentially and/or building substitutes. The one, the one thing that may also be a flexibility thing for the board to consider is paraprofessionals as another support for direct classroom experiences.
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