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Naperville District 203's planned layoffs of 298 teachers and staff members might be too much, said Supt. Alan Leis, and there is a chance some of the employees could get their jobs back in the fall. "It's because of enrollment declines and economic concerns," Leis said. "We're trying to make conservative projections so that we don't end up overstaffed. [But] if we have the kids, then we can bring back teachers." This week, the school board approved a 12.5 percent staff cut for the 2009-10 academic year. Altogether, 67 teachers and 231 support personnel were dismissed out of a district staff of around 2,400. District 203 enrollment is projected to drop by about 300 students, or 1.6 percent, from a current count of 18,204. "In the end, we're not going to be able to hire everybody back, but I'm hoping it isn't as devastating as it is right now," Leis said. Before approving the layoffs Monday, the school board named new prin- cipals for its two high schools. Naperville Central Interim Principal Bill Wiesbrook will be the school's permanent leader, and Hinsdale Central Principal Kevin Pobst will lead Naperville North. Wiesbrook, 46, was hired at Naperville Central in 1996 as a business education teacher and has worked as the school's dean of students and assistant principal of operations. He has a bachelor's degree in business education from Eastern Illinois University and a master's in physical education from Northern Iowa University. Wiesbrook succeeds Jim Caudill, who was removed as principal and reassigned to another district position after he plagiarized a former student's speech at a senior honors assembly last spring. Pobst, 53, has been Hinsdale Central principal since 2007 and worked in Hinsdale District 86 since 2000, including as a department chairman and assistant principal at Hinsdale South and as a District 86 assistant superintendent. He has a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, a master's in teaching from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an advanced certificate in education organization leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pobst succeeds Ross Truemper, who retires in June. Both appointments are three-year contracts that take effect in July. Wiesbrook will receive a $132,500 base salary; Pobst, $140,000. |
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