Below is a link to list of all CPS school/program budgets for 2013. This particular list compares the 2013 budgets with 2012 budgets.. Taft lost $700,000+ dollars and a few teacher slots. Check out various schools around the 41st Ward..
If you click on the school name you can see many budget details.
To enter the database with school-by-school information, go tohttp://www.cps.edu/FY13Budget/Pages/FY13ProposedBudget.aspx; on the left click “Interactive Reports,’’ and across the top click “Find Your School Budget.’’
Taft lost money. Taft is the only high school up here, yet no support for it. Very sad. Where is the political leadership? I noticed a number of grammar schools lost dollars too.
ReplyDeleteI drive all over the city during work and I am amazed to see the decrepid shape Taft high school is in compaired to high schools all over the city. It looks like a tear down. Why won't CPS invest in the only neighborhood high school in the NW section of the city? And I too, wonder, where is the alderman on these budget cuts in her ward and why isn't she doing anything to upgrade Taft High School?
ReplyDeleteI resent having no other choice but to send my kids to catholic schools because the public schools are crowded and in terrible shape. Not only do I have to pay for my kids education, I also have to pay for a cps education for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIf you want change vote the alderman out and don't replace her with another member of the Irish mafia in Edison Park. There was actually a great candidate (Gonzalez) last time that ran against her last time but got less than 10%. The guy is CPD, runs a big property management company and knows how things work. Unlike the lady from the overpriced deli with underwhelming food.
ReplyDeleteHave faith everyone. Rahm has in place top-flight business people with business based solutions for our school system. As we are now well aware, Rahm loves all children. And Rahm loves business, means business, and most of all, is loved by business. Now all we have to do is prepare our children for the careers Rahm and his business allies have waiting for them. Now, get back to work.
ReplyDeleteThis is Rahm. At ease. I have decided to defund Taft High School because unless your kids are willing to become gourmet chefs, I have no use for them. My funders own resteraunts. Your kids will either work in my funders resteraunts, for sinking wages, or they can get out of my city.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
Relax folks. Rham has to take your tax dollars to pay for the free education for all the illegal immigrants he is inviting to the City with open armes. You all voted to redistribute so quit your crying.
ReplyDeleteI didn't vote for the Irish canditates. I did vote for Gonzalez because I did think he was most qualified. He also seemed more like a people person and less like a political puppet, like some of the others. And by the way, I'm Irish.
ReplyDeleteThe money is going to politically connected charter schools - no money left for neighborhood schools. Our kids go to neighborhood schools and we pay hefty taxes. Explain to me how that is fair!
ReplyDeleteExcellent point 8:17am!
ReplyDeleteWatch and see Rahm & the CPS school board PURPOSELY disinvest in neighborhood schools. Less money in the school budgets, less teachers, less infastructure improvements etc will frustrate parents. Parents will be forced to start looking for alternatives, like charter schools - which in reality are in NO WAY better than neighborhood schools. So, why is Rahm purposely DISINVESTING in neighborhood schools like Taft? He wants privatized charter school education in place throughout the city so he can receive polical contributions from the charter school CEOs and directly dictate public school education tenants. More of the Chicago way, polical corruption guised in "its best for the children".
Rahm purposely disinvested in the city mental health clinics, to the point his own department of public health staff were running around town telling everyone the city mental health clinics "really aren't very good". What they failed to mention to the public was, Rahm slashed the city mental health clinic budget in half and forced the clinics to layoff workers and discontinue critical programs. Rahm told everyone - don't worry the not for profit private sector mental health clinics will pick up the slack because I will give them city money to go along with me - and he did. But are the private not for profit clinics seeing uninsured mental health patients, as Rahm implied they would - NO!
Watch and see Rahm do the exact same thing with Chicago Public Schools.