The $2.8 billion in federal emergency funding that CPS received starting in 2020 helped mask continued structural funding problems. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
CPS answer – RAISE TAXES.
The Suntimes keeps calling it a funding problem. Definitely NOT a funding problem, it is a spending and waste problem. This is the same district that keeps schools built for 1000 students who only have 40 students and 50 staff in it open – causing the cost per student to be $90K a year. Who but moron crooks does this and behaves this way?! Yet, they keep coming back to the tax payer and the Morons in the State house to get more and more money…endless.
Close it. Fire them all. Start over…or don’t.
The CPS is one big failure and things will not change until they are taken over by the state and
have some sense of fiscal stability.
These people are out of their minds and please remember ol’ Brandon, “ first we get the money”,
what an idiot.
No sympathy here. Got out of Chicago and IL couple of years ago because could see handwriting on wall. Is the public so unaware of deficit budgets, pension debt, and CTU domination? Used to laugh, not anymore, because no one seems to give a d**n about the situation. You voters bought it, you own it.
You mean temporary slush funding from the Autopen-in-Chief was actually temporary? Does CPS and CTU need a dictionary? Would they even be able to read it?
Illinois elects its dumbest. Every time.
In the real world, where budgets and spending must be balanced, and the product you produce must be no worse than average for both quality and price, CPS would be out of business. They are not out of business because of the political/union fusion of interests and the parents’ apparent indifference to their children’s success: one babysitter is as good as any other. It is a strange system where interests collide, attract and repel each other but have consistently colluded, over generations, to preserve the status quo of abject failure.
It’s a system where at best naked self interest and at worst an extortioners’ mentality are sold as reverence for “ the will of the people”. It’s what the voters want! The majority! Our democracy!
Alexis de Tocqueville was prescient more than 200 years ago.