I noticed these two things so am going to put them together:
Chicago will receive a larger share of state dollars for K-12 schools this year
From the first link:
Enrollment currently stands at just over 313,000 students — the lowest the district has ever recorded — with 12,000 fewer students than last year, the report said.
A recent report showed that declining enrollment in Chicago left about 150 of its schools half-empty.
The Chalkbeat and ProPublica report found that 47 schools are operating at less than one-third capacity, driving up costs and limiting course offerings.
CPS is blaming everything from Covid to a ‘declining birth rate’ instead of the fact that they have crappy schools, overpaid teachers, and mass migration out of the city due to crime, illegals, and taxes that are onerous.
In the meantime, they are sucking the rest of the state dry because they get extra money due to: “a significant drop in local tax revenue and an increase in the number of English learners, giving it higher priority for additional state dollars. “
They still have a shortfall. Their ‘strategy’ to deal with it is to cut the services that are almost guaranteed to cause the most screaming and the most harm: “fewer hot school meals, delays in updating technology, fewer crossing guards, and other changes.” They’re also cutting a quarter of their custodial staff and are ending contracts because having dirty schools IMO will help them to garner sympathy and thus more dollars.
Of course they aren’t cutting overpaid faculty or aggregating school populations in order to actually give the students (that they always use as a smokescreen) an education that will allow them to get ahead in this world.
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