Witness Edna Varner, a consultant for Tennessee's Hamilton County Public Education Foundation, said that guidance counselors can play a critical role but often have high caseloads.

"In many schools, a guidance counselor has 500 students to see. . . Guidance counselors can't do it all, but guidance counselors have been very helpful in helping other teachers build the skills to keep up with that plan, to revise it each year with parents and students and the school and the child's records there," Varner said

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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