CHICAGO – WBEZ reports that despite getting $250 million more from the state of Illinois in the latest education budget, the Chicago Public Schools will lose thousands more students this year, as it did last year.
It's part of the biggest loss of black students since Chicago's white flight in the 70s, the radio report says.
CPS has been hemorrhaging students for years, and it expects enrollment will drop this year by another 8,000 students. Last year, CPS saw an enrollment loss of 11,000 students, the largest single-year drop in recent history. More than one-third of the district’s African-American students — 83,000 black children — have left the school system since 2000. It’s the largest exodus from Chicago schools since white flight in the 1970s. These major student declines mean cuts to individual school budgets, layoffs, and potential school closings. This year, CPS expects 306,000 students in the district-run public schools and another 58,000 in the city’s charter schools, which are privately run but publicly funded.
Read the rest HERE.
Its a reflection of Chicago leadership
Cullerton and Madigan families do not know how to manage school funding. By reducing administrative costs. no additional school funding is necessary. Correctly managed school should reduce cost and improve education.
God Bless ILLinois
Carl Lambrecht
I guess that will leave more room for the Dreamers that
the Mayor wants to protect.
Last white Chicagoan please turn the lights out as you leave.
Since CPS will have fewer students, they should lay off some teachers and cut the city property tax levy.
Agreed, Phil, but since the teachers’ unions do most of the leg work for the Democrat Party, that will not happen.