Village Chronicles

Budget Deficits Mirror State, National Trends.

Last week the Kansas City school board approved a plan to close nearly half of the district’s schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy.

The Chicago public schools face the grim possibility of class sizes of 37 kids, no non-varsity sports, and cutbacks in assistant principals and clerks in order for the system to chop $700 million from its upcoming budget. Hundreds of teaching jobs are at risk.

At its Feb. 24 meeting, the Board of Education for Community Unit School District 200 appointed Dr. Brian Harris as the district’s next Superintendent of Schools, effective July 1, 2010. He replaces acting Superintendent Charles Baker, who has been serving since the October resignation of Richard Drury.