Proposals to eliminate 17 APS jobs fail during Board of Education meeting

Three separate proposals to cut a total of 17 positions at Akron Public Schools didn’t get enough votes during Monday’s regular Board of Education meeting.

“The majority of the board has indicated that they have not received the information that they need in order to make a decision,” said Akron Public Schools Board of Education President Barbara Sykes.

Now, Sykes said members must quickly come together, or else she said the district could face academic warning if a decision is not reached sometime in June…

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