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El Departamento de Educación de EE. UU está recortando casi la mitad de su fuerza laboral. El reportero de educación de WNIJ, Peter Medlin, habló con Al Llorens, el presidente de la Illinois Education Association, el sindicato de maestros más grande del estado. sobre el impacto en las escuelas de Illinois.

The U.S. Department of Education is cutting nearly half its workforce. WNIJ education reporter Peter Medlin spoke with Al Llorens, president of the Illinois Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, about the impact on Illinois schools.

Schools in Illinois’s neediest districts are being forced to spend federal funds to prop up the state’s Teacher Retirement System. Public schools that…