Rockford Public Schools is cutting over 100 positions as they deal with a $15 million budget deficit.
RPS Superintendent Ehren Jarrett says costs have gone up a lot over the past few years. The district also increased social emotional support coming out of the pandemic.
“Unfortunately, that’s how you go from a budget surplus to a budget deficit pretty quickly,” he said. “And unfortunately, the only way to get ahead of this was to cut back on some staff.”…