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Parents and staff urge board to keep school social workers as CPS approves eight‑position cut
Summary
After more than a dozen public speakers urged keeping or restoring school social workers, the Cincinnati board voted to approve an eight‑position reduction to the district’s social‑work staffing; board members and public speakers framed the choice as a painful but necessary budget tradeoff under state funding pressure.
The Cincinnati Public Schools board voted on June 23 to approve the elimination of eight school social work positions as part of a broader cost‑reduction plan, despite extensive public comment from social workers, parents and community members who said cutting the roles would harm students.
The nut graf: Dozens of public commenters and several district social workers told the board that social workers provide crisis intervention, suicide screenings, home visits and continuing grief support — services that commenters and staff said cannot be absorbed by other staff without…
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