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AFT Resolution

TEACHER/STUDENT RATIO IN SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES

WHEREAS, special education is an individualized instructional system; and

WHEREAS, the special education instructor must evaluate all of the pupils assigned to his/her class on an individual basis; and

WHEREAS, the special education instructor must provide the teaching and non-teaching personnel with the appropriate information and materials necessary for proper instruction; and

WHEREAS, the decrease of one or more pupils does not diminish the total instructional operation involved:

RESOLVED, that the AFT strive to have the special education teacher/student ratio remain the same when a teaching assistant and/or other personnel is assigned to the classroom or to an individual students/students within the instructional framework of special education.

(1973)

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