Even though the CPS is sitting on more than $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds, a librarian who has spoken out about library cuts is expected to lose her job this week.
Coonley Elementary librarian Nora Wiltse outside of the North Center neighborhood school Tuesday. Now in her 19th year with CPS, she anticipates that she'll lose her job because of budget cuts.demanding a “fully funded and staffed library” at Coonley has garnered nearly 500 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon. Wiltse has been referenced in heated budget discussions at recent public meetings. Those who know her insist Coonley and its library program would suffer without her.
, a measure taken to ease overcrowding. Coonley lost 89 students between the last school year and this one, according to data captured on the 20th day of instruction. “And as I told you, it’s really hard to do that if I’m telling them you’re losing three instructional and support staff members, including one of the most talented and beloved librarians in our entire school system, who is constantly the subject — and rightly so — of local and national acclaim. That’s a really hard position that we’re in,” Martin said before raising the prospect of using unspent COVID-19 funds to keep Wiltse employed for at least one more year.
Wiltse said if her $97,780-a-year position is cut, she would have to find a school with a librarian position that’s willing to take her in her 20th year. Coonley, meanwhile, would be at risk of losing thousands of dollars of grant money earmarked for schools with staff librarians, she said. She estimates 33,000 books have been circulated this school year.“When librarians have left , I have done analyses on what happens, and it’s just exactly what you would think.
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