TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo Public Schools has begun laying off employees as part of a sweeping cost-cutting plan aimed at addressing a projected budget deficit, with district leaders warning that more job eliminations are likely over the next two years.
Tuesday, district officials said 32 people were notified they no longer have jobs, including central office staff and 20 nurses and social workers.
“I think all the nurses are concerned. They’re concerned for their coworkers who are staying, and that they’ll have an abundance of work to do. The nurses who are leaving are concerned that their students won’t have someone who knows them the way that they do, just from seeing them every day,” said Chris Knack, a nurse for TPS…