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Analysis: Over 25 years, CPS enrollment down 16 percent. But spending up 50 percent.
Chicago Public Schools has lost 65,000 students since the 1996-97 school year. But its annual budget has increased by $4.4 billion dollars-- a jump of 50 percent, adjusted for inflation.
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Kelly: Trump’s DOJ should investigate Chicago Public Schools
William J. Kelly thinks the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and its more than 500 cases of child rape and sex abuse cases over the past decade is more than enough cause for federal investigation.
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Chicago Classical Academy charter school down but not out, would-be co-founder says
The would-be founders of Chicago Classical Academy, which would have been a charter school rooted in the liberal arts and set apart from existing Chicago public schools, are discouraged that their application was not approved but they're not done, one would-be founder said during a recent interview.
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Chicago Classical Academy to hold hearing with charter school commission
Chicago Classical Academy will hold a public hearing with the Illinois State Charter School Commission Feb. 20 at Ping Tom Memorial Park.
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Public Building Commission of Chicago met October 19.
Public Building Commission of Chicago met at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19.
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Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met December 14.
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 14.
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Public Building Commission of Chicago met October 19.
Public Building Commission of Chicago met Thursday, Oct. 19.
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City of Chicago Committee on Finance met November 20.
City of Chicago Committee on Finance met at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 20.
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Longtime CPS activist Katten suddenly silent on school issues
Wendy Katten is unusually quiet.
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Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met October 19
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met 9 a.m. Thursday, October 19.
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Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met August 21
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met 10 a.m. Monday, August 21.
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Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board will meet October 19.
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 19.
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Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met June 22.
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board met at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 22.
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Collective bargaining described as plaguing schools with absent teachers
Schools might want to reconsider their collective bargaining agreements (CBA) after reading an article by a former teacher that links chronic teacher absences to unionized schools.
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Public Building Commission of Chicago met July 11.
Public Building Commission of Chicago met Tuesday, July 11.
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Public Building Commission of Chicago met August 8.
Public Building Commission of Chicago met Tuesday, August 8.
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School funding bill seen as giving Chicago more room to deny, delay financial woes
The recently passed school funding legislation has given Chicago another shovel to dig itself deeper into debt, the founder of the financial news website WirePoints contends.
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School funding bill described as another threat to Illinois homeowners
Heidi Holan is at a loss to understand how state lawmakers can justify raising property taxes as part of the new school funding formula at a time when the value of most taxpayers’ homes is either flat or falling.
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Rauner tax credit program called silver lining in tarnished school funding bill
Ted Dabrowski doesn't see the state's new school funding formula as the miracle so many legislators contend that it is.
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Chicago School District 299 students to be eligible for private school scholarships in new state program
A new public school funding bill recently passed by the Illinois Legislature, SB1947, includes a scholarship program that would award donated funds to students in lower-income families — up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level — to provide them the opportunity to attend private schools.