EDISON — The Board of Education will soon decide whether to restore its 137 paraprofessionals and teacher aides or privatize their services.
A special public meeting on the matter will be held at 7 p.m., July 27 at Edison High School.
In June, the school board voted 5-4 to send reduction-in-force letters to the school district’s 127 paraprofessionals. The board has proposed privatizing those positions, along with 10 teacher aides, in order to achieve savings of about $2 million in the 2010-11 school budget. Although the board solicited bids for the teacher assistants, it did not vote as scheduled in June to award the bid to a private staffing service.
Board President Gene Maeroff said the board delayed its decision in order to further investigate ways of keeping the services in house.