Rockford Public Schools strike: What parents need to know
ROCKFORD — Rockford Public Schools will remain open during the upcoming three-day strike of support employees.
Bus drivers, nutrition service workers and paraprofessionals — about 900 employees in all — plan to go on strike Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
About 18,000 children will be without rides to and from school. Hundreds of employees who provide support to teachers and work one-on-one with students with disabilities won't be there, along with the hundreds more who cook and serve hot meals to children at lunchtime.
Union employees will be picketing all three days at 13 sites from early childhood education centers and elementary schools to middle schools, high schools and administrative offices. Schools will remain open.
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