Monday the Naperville School District 203 Board voted down widespread teacher layoffs after facing hours of public outcry.
The Reduction in Force proposal, or RIF, came in response to the projected deficit in the District’s budget, which had been presented at a board meeting last November. The RIF would have cut 38 teachers across the district. Before the vote, Naperville North teacher Ritu Wilson was asked about how she expected the RIF to affect students. She did not foresee a positive outcome.
“[The district] will lose a lot of support that [is] in place to help students, and I think that it [would have] made learning a lot harder,” Wilson said…