CPS budget cuts could mean some teacher layoffs, larger class sizes

The district’s funds are being cut by about $60 million, the largest drop in nearly a decade.

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Students in Angela Caravetta's second grade homeroom practice measuring objects during a math lesson at Burnham Elementary in Cicero. The school district regularly makes difficult choices on where to spend its scarce dollars. Marc Monaghan / WBEZ
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Students in Angela Caravetta's second grade homeroom practice measuring objects during a math lesson at Burnham Elementary in Cicero. The school district regularly makes difficult choices on where to spend its scarce dollars. Marc Monaghan / WBEZ

CPS budget cuts could mean some teacher layoffs, larger class sizes

The district’s funds are being cut by about $60 million, the largest drop in nearly a decade.

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Declining enrollment at Chicago Public Schools is costing the state’s largest school district millions in funding this fall. This on the heels of a 2018 coding error on behalf of the Illinois Department of Education that CPS will have to pay back.

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