{"id":19194,"date":"2013-10-21T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19194"},"modified":"2013-10-21T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:41:08","slug":"obamacare-takes-teachers-from-special-needs-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19194\/obamacare-takes-teachers-from-special-needs-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Takes Teachers From Special-Needs Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/politics-obamacare\/101813-675710-100-school-districts-blame-obamacare-for-cuts-to-wor-hours.htm\" target=\"_blank\">school district<\/a> in Oconomowoc, Wis., recently celebrated the achievements of a new program for special-needs students. Unfortunately, the staff responsible for helping those special-needs students succeed are seeing their hours cut dramatically thanks to Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/politics-obamacare\/101813-675710-100-school-districts-blame-obamacare-for-cuts-to-wor-hours.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> the school district would face a $1.5 million hit due to the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s employer insurance requirements if it didn\u2019t slash the work hours of the paraprofessional staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of one full-time paraprofessional working a full day; one part-time paraprofessional would work the morning half of the day, while a second part-time paraprofessional would work the afternoon portion of the day,&#8221; the district told parents.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 school districts across America have already cut support such as teacher aides, bus drivers and cafeteria workers to avoid massive Obamacare-related costs, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/politics-obamacare\/101813-675710-100-school-districts-blame-obamacare-for-cuts-to-wor-hours.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We already knew that Obamacare harms the economy, reduces the quality of available healthcare and limits choice. Sadly, the scheme also interferes with the ability of school districts to provide a quality education to our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Oconomowoc, Wis., recently celebrated the achievements of a new program for special-needs students. Unfortunately, the staff responsible for helping those special-needs students succeed are seeing their hours cut dramatically thanks to Obamacare. Investor&#8217;s Business Daily reports the school district would face a $1.5 million hit due to the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3892,35,4336,4334,4335],"class_list":["post-19194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-obamacare","tag-oconomowoc","tag-part-time","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19205,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194\/revisions\/19205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}