By CTU Communications | April 18, 2023 | News, Press Release
File under: CPS budget
Time and again, educators and school personnel across this city have been called to do more with less. And now is the time for that to change.
By Leslie Westerberg, Nixon Elementary teacher-librarian | May 25, 2022 | News
File under: budget cuts, CPS budget, Nixon Elementary School
A Chicago Public Schools teacher-librarian asks, “How can my students reach their full potential without the full support of their own school district?”
By CTU Communications | April 26, 2022 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS budget, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
Lightfoot’s CPS team has $1.4 billion in unspent federal COVID relief funds, but is imposing massive cuts on schools in special education, trauma supports, other critical needs, creating larger class sizes, fewer supports and hunger games of disinvestment and neglect....By CTU Communications | April 25, 2022 | News, News Advisory
File under: COVID-19, CPS budget, SBB: Student Based Budgeting, Zapata
CPS hoarding $1.4 billion in federal COVID relief dollars, low-balling scope of budget cuts, which will result in split classrooms, bigger classes, less resources for students who need more social emotional support. 7:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 26: press conference with...By Pavlyn Jankov | April 6, 2022 | News
File under: COVID-19, CPS budget, pandemic relief funds, Pavlyn Jankov
CPS is proposing more than 200 schools receive budget cuts for the 2022 school year of more than $42 million, at a time when the district is sitting on billions in federal stimulus money. That’s just half a percentage point of the annual operating budget, or just 1.5 percent of the total $2.6 billion plus in federal COVID relief CPS has received since 2020.
By CTU President Jesse Sharkey | March 20, 2022 | News
File under: COVID-19, CPS budget, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
CTU President Jesse Sharkey sent the following message to CTU rank and file members on Sunday, March 20, after the Union’s preliminary weekend analysis of school budget information released to principals on Friday. The Union has not yet received the actual...By Pavlyn Jankov | August 13, 2021 | News
File under: American Recovery Plan, COVID, COVID-19, CPS budget, Lori Lightfoot, Right to Recovery
CPS is set to receive an historic $2.6 billion infusion of federal dollars from three federal funding programs. And the City of Chicago will reap another $2 billion in COVID relief money, giving Mayor Lightfoot a record $4 billion that should be used to transform our schools and communities.
By CTU Communications | July 27, 2021 | News, News Advisory
File under: Board of Education, Chicago Board of Education, City Budget, CPS budget
CTU leaders, City Council members, rank-and-file educators and community partners are holding an informational picket and press conference at 8:45 a.m. tomorrow at the Chicago Board of Education to present budget concerns around school staffing, capital improvements and long-term district sustainability.
By CTU Communications | July 20, 2021 | News, News Advisory
File under: City Hall, CPS budget, Summer Organizing Institute
Union leaders and educators will meet at 4 p.m. today at City Hall to present budget concerns around school staffing, capital improvements and long-term district sustainability.
By Jackson Potter | April 20, 2021 | News
File under: Cecilia Soto, Celeste Larkin, COVID-19, CPS budget, Cynthia Jones, Heather Ingram, Jackson Potter, Marilen Corres, Nick Lucas
How should CPS spend the extra $2.3 billion the district is receiving in pandemic relief funds from the federal government? To answer that question, a group of CTU members across the district is asking their students.