A longtime Chicago Public Schools librarian has been tasked with crafting a new library program at a South Side high school that hasn’t had one in years — just months after she got a pink slip from the district and was left wondering where her next job would be.
Nora Wiltse, a 19-year CPS veteran and outspoken advocate for school libraries, was among several librarians to get laid off at the end of last school year as district principals decided how to spend their new budgets.
