No sooner than mentioning the financial crisis facing the CPS system, as I did yesterday, and along comes another hit to the tune of $69 million. The cash strapped district is proposing additional cuts to the classrooms in light of trying to close a multi-million dollar budget gap.
CPS is calling this a 'freeze.' Well, here's what the freeze looks like. $46 million will be cut (my words) in discretionary spending which includes money for textbooks, field trips, technology and hourly workers who staff recess and after-school programs. Another $5 million will be 'frozen' for teacher training and the remaining $18 million will be saved if CPS scales back funding to the charter schools it helps if the state takes no action before the charters' fourth quarter payment is due.
All in all, it hits the classroom hard. Reducing spending on critical after-school programs, technology and textbooks is a hard pill to swallow for the kids, teachers and individual schools. I've heard of the expression of 'bare bones' and this freeze sure looks and feels like the type of Chicago freeze we get hit with each winter.
Dick
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