Emanuel's New Bare-Bones School Budget Fails to Restore Damaging Cuts
April 17, 2018
April 17, 2018
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 17 -- Chicago Teachers Union issued the following news release:
The new school budget proposal deployed today by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's handpicked school board and executives ignores Illinois' 2017 equity-based school funding formula, which lays out what CPS should be spending to meet the needs of the district's overwhelmingly low-income students.
Instead, Emanuel's favored 'student-based' budgeting formula - . . .
The new school budget proposal deployed today by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's handpicked school board and executives ignores Illinois' 2017 equity-based school funding formula, which lays out what CPS should be spending to meet the needs of the district's overwhelmingly low-income students.
Instead, Emanuel's favored 'student-based' budgeting formula - . . .