Teacher Assistant Jobs In Jeopardy

By Will Michaels,

Published July 22, 2015 at 12:19 PM EDT

Fayetteville teacher assistant Grace King works with first graders on sight words.

Teacher assistant positions in North Carolina have been . And the North Carolina Senate's proposed budget eliminates funding for about 8,500 more TAs in order to hire more teachers.

Teacher assistants and researchers are split on the effectiveness of TAs.

Host Frank Stasio talks to 瓜神app reporter about the state of teacher assistant jobs.

She also gives us the latest on the court鈥檚 review of the Leandro Case, a 1994 lawsuit about education equality in the state.

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Will Michaels

Will Michaels is 瓜神app's Weekend Host and Reporter.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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