After accepting then wasting $6 billion in COVID funds, the city increased its budget 70%, schools per pupil funding 40% and the CTA 30%. Mayor Johnson is now demanding a massive state bailout.
Johnson and CTU President Stacy Davis-Gates claim city schools — which spend $30K per pupil — are shortchanged $1.6 billion.
Johnson and Davis Gates’ school funding demands are not related to improving student performance. Their demands are to pay for the second straight $1.5 billion CTU teacher contract.
To Johnson and Davis Gates, Pritzker is their new political piñata for failing to call a special session to rescue the city. Pritzker can’t bail out Chicago. He has his own problems: The governor is facing a $3.2B budget hole next year.
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K-12 Tax & $pending climate: Chicago’s pension crisis is heading for a Detroit-style collapse.