TheHuffington Post reports
The Naperville School District has canceled a scheduled speech by Bill Ayers after it sparked "outrage" in the community, the district said in a statement Monday.
Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago whose controversial past as a member of the 1960's radical group the Weather Underground resurfaced during the presidential campaign, was scheduled to speak at Naperville North High School on April 8. The school district said last week that students would need signed permission from their parents in order to attend.
But in a statement released Monday, Supt. Alan Leis said that, "Dr. Ayers' appearance has clearly become a 'lightning rod,'" and that the controversy surrounding the speech would outweigh its value to the students.
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