Chicago Public Schools is taking resources from schools to which parents want to send their kids in order to support those parents don’t.
Chicago Public Schools finally has released its school-by-school budgets for next year. The system conveniently waited until the chance of Springfield intervening in its fiscal affairs was over.
CPS brass say that’s basically by design. This budget represents a reset, a whole new way of running the system. From their point of view, there’s little point in these comparisons. This is Year 1, folks. So, more than usual, there are winners and losers, given that the overall pot of money isn’t increasing much. Critics point to the example of Douglass High School in Austin on the West Side. That high school currently serves a total of 35 — no, that’s not a typo — students. Under the new budget, Douglass is adding nine positions next year to bring its staff to 32 from 23, according to Chalkbeat.
Under the old budgeting system, school budgets depended mainly, but not entirely, on enrollment. That’s an understandable way to divvy up resources, but as parts of the city lost population over the past decade and many schools continued operating at well below 50% of their capacity, those sparsely attended schools lost teachers and other staff for budgetary reasons.
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