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Despite vows to keep budget shortfall from classrooms, some Chicago Public Schools classrooms face cuts when pleas for additional state funding go unmet.

Chicago Public Schools leaders’ hopes of averting an approximately $400 million deficit were dashed over the weekend, when the Illinois Senate approved a state spending plan without additional funds that the state’s largest school district, alongside Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union, has sought over the past year. But despite a “challenging financial year” ahead, ...

Local School Councils at several specialty elementary schools say they are facing budget cuts — a claim backed up by a WBEZ/Sun-Times analysis.

Principals received their school budgets for next year, the first under a new system that focuses on needs of schools, rather than enrollment.

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