Aides can keep substitute teaching after Iowa lawmakers approve an emergency rule
BPC Staff Feb 15, 2022 | 9:25 pm
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79 wordsAll Latest News, Education, Government Policy and Law, Statewide NewsDes Moines Register: Instructional aides may continue to substitute teach in multiple classrooms once Iowa’s emergency pandemic proclamation expires this week after lawmakers met today to approve an emergency rules change. Iowa public schools were worried that the expiration of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ public health disaster proclamation this week would worsen their staffing shortages since the proclamation relaxed the rules for some school staffing, like allowing the aides — known as paraeducators — to substitute teach in multiple classrooms.