Despite vows to keep budget shortfall from classrooms, some Chicago Public Schools classrooms face cuts when pleas for additional state funding go unmet.
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, .
Members of the Cumberland County Board of Education took steps Wednesday to heal the rifts that have affected board business and their relationships with one another and Director of Schools