A Statement from the Chicago Teacher Union on the CPS Budget Framework
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.
Educators are tired of doing more with less. Our students deserve better than this.
A Chicago Public Schools teacher-librarian asks, “How can my students reach their full potential without the full support of their own school district?”
Mayor must reverse school cuts and invest COVID funds in students needs and recovery
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....Zapata joins public schools across city in rejecting devastating CPS budget cuts
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...School budgets must support the right to recovery
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.
School budgets must support right to recovery
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...CPS sets back-to-business-as-usual budget
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.
Mayor Lightfoot is sitting on $4 billion for Chicago and our schools
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.
CTU holds People’s Budget Hearing today at City Hall
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.
Creating a pandemic budget with student voice
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.
