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Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil


Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces one of the biggest tests of his administration as turmoil with the school district — marked by an abrupt ...

Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil

Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil · City's entire board of education abruptly resigned last week · Junk-rated school ...

What's at the heart of the turmoil at Chicago Public Schools? Money

The district also took out a series of emergency loans to deal with budget shortfalls between 2016 and 2018. According to the district, it still ...

Bloomberg on X: "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces one of the ...

... turmoil with the school district threatens to further erode the ... Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil. From ...

Turmoil at Chicago Public Schools: What you need to know

The root of the CPS back-and-forth is a lack of money. CPS faced about a $500 million deficit for this school year as federal pandemic ...

One big reason Chicago Public Schools is facing a billion-dollar deficit

Now the CTU is screaming at everyone involved to demand $1 billion from the state, while Martinez wants Johnson to raid the city's TIFs funds to ...

Killing extra pension payment could spare Mayor Brandon Johnson ...

Ratings agency downgrades for the city's credit, making borrowing more expensive in the near term. A lingering budget deficit akin to this ...

Chicago facing nearly $1 BILLION budget gap in 2025 ... - YouTube

A budget shortfall of nearly $1 billion is forecasted for the upcoming year for Chicago, NBC Chicago's Christian Farr reports.

4 ways Chicago's 2025 budget fails, plus hikes property taxes

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's 2025 budget proposes a nearly $1 billion deficit. High personnel and pension costs have Johnson breaking his ...

Chicago's School Crisis Is More Than Just a Budget Problem

That includes a $500 million gap in the Chicago Public Schools 2025 budget that Johnson wants to address with a short-term, high-interest loan, ...

Chicago Mayor's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debt Plan for ...

Aldeman: Borrowing another $284M, rather than reducing programs or staff, would put city's schools in an even deeper budget hole than they ...

Chicago Public Schools spends $100 million yearly on its 20 ...

Chicago Public Schools spends $100 million yearly on its 20 emptiest schools. And it wants to spend another $1 billion on them. – Wirepoints.

Chicago faces nearly $1 billion 2025 budget hole — will mayor fill it ...

Chicago is facing a $982.4 million budget shortfall in 2025 that has Mayor Brandon Johnson refusing to rule out the property tax increase he ...

Megan Hawkins on X: "Bloomberg: Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole ...

Bloomberg: Chicago's $1 Billion Budget Hole Exacerbated by School Turmoil https://t.co/qQXEjMYffc.

Chicago Public Schools faces $500M deficit despite $10B budget

A one-time debt issuance to finance permanent spending increases would make matters worse in following years. That habit of treating temporary ...

CEO Martinez asks city for more funds to solve CPS budget woes

Amid turmoil over district leadership and a disagreement over the budget, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said Wednesday that a ...

Covid money boosted Chicago's schools. Now it's gone, and the city ...

Is this $10 billion dollar number over the next 4 years real? Chicago has a $223 million budget gap this year, and the city is projecting a ...

Chicago mayor on budget shortfall: We don't want to cut any services

The city is currently facing a nearly $225 million deficit that is expected to go up to about $1 billion next year. The mayor's budget ...

Big-City Districts Are Beset by Financial Dysfunction — and Kids Pay ...

Chicago is the most concerning. The district's current $300 million budget gap is set to triple next year, which isn't surprising since ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson demands “sacrifices” to pay for ...

Chicago's Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson announced last week that the city's public school system faces a $982 million budget deficit in ...