Chicago Public Schools vows to keep budget shortfall from classrooms after pleas for increased state funding go unmet. But some schools face cuts.

Chicago Public Schools leaders’ hopes of averting an approximately $400 million deficit were dashed over the weekend, when the Illinois Senate approved a state spending plan without additional funds that the state’s largest school district, alongside Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union, has sought over the past year. But despite a “challenging financial year” ahead, ...

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