Despite its best efforts to reduce costs, the District 153 school board agreed, at its Monday, April 7, meeting, to cut positions through a reduction in force (RIF) process.
One full-time and one part-time music teacher and 17 paraprofessionals working in classrooms at Willow, Churchill and James Hart Schools will be cut, although Superintendent Scott McAlister hopes that some of them will be called back.
“This is tough, not anything any of us signed up…
