Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, December 19, the RCSD Board of Education will vote on the ill-advised recommendation for devastating mid-year cuts. Between now and then, we are doing all we can to dissuade them from approving that hurtful proposal which would disrupt our students’ learning and the relationships that they have formed with their teachers. Our cause is increasingly supported by our students, by their parents and by their families. Together we must convince the school board that a better and a more promising strategy is to delay any layoffs until June. By then, we’ll know more about the District’s budget, we’d have an opportunity to secure additional “spin-up” funding from the State, and we’d have the time to figure out together how to rectify the current fiscal predicament in a way that would not hurt our students as the current proposal would. To achieve this, we must continue to support our students and their parents as they advocate against the mid-year cuts. We must...