By Chris Geovanis | May 17, 2022 | News
File under: budget cuts, COVID-19, Haines elementary, Lori Lightfoot, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
With schools currently funded at only 65% ‘adequacy’, mayor’s $60+ million budget cuts come as CPS sits on $1.4 billion in federal COVID relief dollars and low-balls scope of harm, which will force split classrooms, larger classes, less resources for students who... 
By Christel Williams-Hayes, CTU Recording Secretary | May 4, 2022 | Resolutions
File under: budget cuts, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
This resolution was adopted at the May 4, 2022 House of Delegates meeting.
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 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 CTU Communications | July 7, 2021 | Chicago Union Teacher, Features, News
File under: Karen Zaccor, LSC: Local School Council, PPLC: Professional Personnel Leadership Committee, Sarah Rothschild, SBB: Student Based Budgeting, School Budget
CTU budget trainings educate and empower members to challenge budget priorities and advocate for school needs.
By CTU Communications | January 30, 2020 | News
File under: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, SBB: Student Based Budgeting, SQRP: School Quality Rating Policy
In order to be fully prepared for the district’s budget meetings, our members and allies need to be fully informed on the effect student based-budgeting and the SQRP ratings system have on our students.
By CTU Communications | November 8, 2019 | News, Press Release
File under: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, educational justice, Enrollment, Equity, SBB: Student Based Budgeting, SQRP: School Quality Rating Policy, student-based budgeting
City Hall has power to reverse hostility to needs of ordinary residents—and must muster political will to support real equity and economic justice. CHICAGO, November 8, 2019—Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement today in...By Chicago Teachers Union | April 17, 2018 | Press Release
File under: Budget, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, ISBE, Jesse Sharkey, Rahm Emanuel, SBB: Student Based Budgeting, Springfield
“Mayor is again prioritizing paying bond holders who are laughing all the way to the banks they own – while continuing to harm our students by refusing to seek new revenue from those most able to pay,” say teachers. CHICAGO, April 17, 2018 – The new school...By Chicago Teachers Union | March 26, 2018 | Press Release
File under: CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTE, GoCPS, Jesse Sharkey, Rahm Emanuel, Research, SBB: Student Based Budgeting
CPS must reinvest in rather than continue to scale back career/technical ed programs, while mayor must abandon inequitable student-based budgeting scheme. Without progressive change, thousands could be denied chance to meet District’s new graduation mandates or access...
