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During the 2015-16 school year, 84.2% of school-aged children were enrolled in traditional public schools. During the 2022-23 year, that number was down to 80%. “We are already struggling with ...
Lee told the school committee last month that the schools needed an additional $10 million in their 2024-25 budget to maintain current staff and programs. Of that amount, $6.5 million is needed ...
Signaling a paradigm shift in a school system largely shaped by choice, the Chicago Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday to prioritize neighborhood schools in Chicago Public Schools ...
The Illinois Budget Impasse was a 793-day-long (2 years and 62 days) budget crisis in the state of Illinois. From July 1, 2015, to August 31, 2017, Illinois was without a complete state budget for fiscal years 2016, 2017, and part of 2018. As a result, many state agencies had to cut services or continue borrowing to operate.
The school district sits on over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of property, and its facilities occupy over 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m 2). The district has a transportation complex of five buildings, a buildings and grounds complex of 4 buildings, a middle school leased to BOCES, 22 pump houses and storage sheds as well as vacant property on which ...
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
July 24, 2024 at 8:20 AM. ... will spend on ESAs for 2024-25, ... in too many cases, a catch-all bogeyman for explaining public schools’ budget cuts and other problems. ESAs are far from the ...
Last year, Monárrez said, the student-to-teacher ratio in the public schools was 19 to 1. With the proposed cuts in teaching staff, the average classroom ratio is expected to increase to 21 to 1.