Illinois schools are locked in a painful dance with the state – each month the state threatens more cuts, and each month school districts are forced to cut closer and closer to the bone as they scramble to meet a looming deadline to lay off staff.
That dance was in full swing at Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300’s school board meeting Thursday night. Included in a presentation Thursday night of millions more in cuts the district must make was 113 nontenured teachers – coming on top of 153 first- and second-year teachers laid off earlier this month.
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