By WLRN Public Media
A sea of district employees flooded a Broward County School Board workshop to plead to board members to reconsider 800 job cuts on the line. The board met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the drastic reduction in staff, first proposed last week, as it seeks to deal with a budget shortfall of about $90 million from its shrinking student enrollment.
Emotions ran high among the dozens of people who came to the workshop, filling up the chamber before spilling over into the outside hallway and waiting area to watch on screens. They cheered on public speakers voicing their concerns to the board and groaning when they disagreed.
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