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April 12, 2006

Teacher assistants needed in Providence

PROVIDENCE - The city's schools need 100 new teacher assistants - fast.

Thanks to the federal Leave No Child Behind law, teacher assistants must now be highly qualified, which means they need one of the following: an associate's degree, 48 hours of college work or a passing grade on a national test.

Until now, approximately 110 of the district's 550 assistants have not met these new guidelines, so the city launched a recruitment drive yesterday.

To help candidates meet the grade, the Community College of Rhode Island is offering a 33-hour training program. Tutoring is being offered by Local 1033 of the Laborers International Union of North America, while Workforce Solutions of Providence and Cranston will recruit and screen candidates. The union is paying for the lion's share of the training program.

-- Journal staff writer Linda Borg

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