CPS is already facing a projected $628 million structural operating deficit in 2025 that Board of Education members have been warning about for over a year. It has long been apparent that many of the city’s school facilities need serious upgrades for healthy and safe learning, with kids often learning among hazards such as lead paint, leaky ceilings, broken floor tiles and deteriorating walls.
The beatings will continue until things improve around here! That’s likely from the Josef Stalin playbook.
Old Joe
2 years ago
I smell a grift. CPS should leverage this opportunity with the increase in public charges. Each rehab needs a taqueria and I suggest that bull fighting become a high-school sport complete with matador uniforms and a bull ring built right next to the football field.
Guantanamera!
Riverbender
2 years ago
Close the schools and consolidate…a statewide problem solved
chattycathy
2 years ago
“All of these renovations are needed as FEWER students
attend CPS schools.”
In bygone days, the usual thing for them used to be to say that
they had an increase in students —- and so they needed to
add on to buildings, etc… — and this could be more
easily justified.
Now, in an ongoing recession, with businesses in Chicago
ravaged by the obscene lockdowns that they imposed
during the plandemic and revenues down as a result, and
with FEWER students attending, these thieves are planning
THIS.
There is just NO END to this lunacy
Clayton Bigsby
2 years ago
CPS needs to spend a few billion on schools with enrollments of less than 100 students. Makes sense to me
Last edited 2 years ago by Clayton Bigsby
Poor Taxpayer
2 years ago
Time to pay back the Unions for all of their VOTES.
Da Judge
2 years ago
Time for some bake sales at CPS!!
Giddyap
2 years ago
How about using that 14B to build charter schools that might actually educate kids for a change
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Take it out of the teachers pay budget. They certainly are not worth what they are being paid. Just look at the test scores and failure rates.
The beatings will continue until things improve around here! That’s likely from the Josef Stalin playbook.
I smell a grift. CPS should leverage this opportunity with the increase in public charges. Each rehab needs a taqueria and I suggest that bull fighting become a high-school sport complete with matador uniforms and a bull ring built right next to the football field.
Guantanamera!
Close the schools and consolidate…a statewide problem solved
“All of these renovations are needed as FEWER students
attend CPS schools.”
In bygone days, the usual thing for them used to be to say that
they had an increase in students —- and so they needed to
add on to buildings, etc… — and this could be more
easily justified.
Now, in an ongoing recession, with businesses in Chicago
ravaged by the obscene lockdowns that they imposed
during the plandemic and revenues down as a result, and
with FEWER students attending, these thieves are planning
THIS.
There is just NO END to this lunacy
CPS needs to spend a few billion on schools with enrollments of less than 100 students. Makes sense to me
Time to pay back the Unions for all of their VOTES.
Time for some bake sales at CPS!!
How about using that 14B to build charter schools that might actually educate kids for a change