{"id":793659,"date":"2026-05-13T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:54:17","slug":"chicago-public-schools-release-budget-plans-while-facing-733-million-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793659\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Public Schools release budget plans while facing $733 million shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Public Schools have released their early budget plans for the next school year, as the district faces a $733 million budget gap.<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 individual school budget proposals were delivered to principals, and the district is poised to cut staff.<\/p>\n<p>CPS is planning cuts at its central offices, and reduction of funding for assistant principals. The district is also prepared to slash counselors, bilingual coordinators, sports, and music programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Board of Education must vote on the final $1 billion budget by Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the board discusses the budget, members are pushing back on a property tax bill they say prioritizes a new Chicago Bears stadium over school funding.<\/p>\n<p>Board members warn the cuts to public schools will hurt Black, Latino, and working-class students the most. They are calling on lawmakers to fund schools fully based on the state&#8217;s formula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Public Schools have released their early budget plans for the next school year, as the district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,16742,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-793659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-public-schools","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116567845748015571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}