News

District officials say they expect to save about $165 million after laying off some central office staff and crossing guards ...
Chicago Public Schools hosted community forums to hear stakeholders’ ideas on how to solve its budget deficit.
A Department of Education investigation found Chicago Public Schools wrongly obtained $1.1 million by misidentifying South ...
There’s a month to go before the Chicago school board must approve a budget for the coming year, and leaders still are ...
CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools officials have yet to identify a solution for the district’s looming $734 million deficit, ...
The Chicago Board of Education met Thursday as Chicago Public Schools faces a more than $700 million budget shortfall that it ...
The impact of recent budget cuts will include fewer hot meals, delays in school repairs, curtailed crossing guard programs, ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago School Board meets Thursday to address the district's $734M budget hole. The interim CEO is warning about possible cuts and the need to borrow money. Earlier this week, ...
Chicago’s school board president said borrowing is a "viable option" for the district to avoid cuts to classrooms. But with a ...
Forcing the district deeper into debt is reckless and wrong, writes the chief of policy at Kids First Chicago.
I will not be proposing a property tax increase in my budget,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Thursday. “I’m going to continue to ...