While CPS has yet to release more specifics about its new funding formula, experts say the end to student-based budgeting may mean full or over-enrolled schools in wealthier areas may lose money.
Full or over-enrolled schools in wealthier areas may lose money, experts sayChicago Public Schools is set to end enrollment-based budgeting. Former CPS CEO Paul Vallas says its to protect Chicago Teachers Union jobs.For the past decade, each school budget was based on enrollment. More students meant more money.But that is about to change. A new funding formula will guarantee a set number of staff for every school.
Even if a school is severely under-enrolled, like Frederick Douglas High School, it will get a base level of staffing. With a faculty parking lot almost empty, the West Side high school has only 33 students. For years, the CTU and now-Mayor Brandon Johnson have been calling for an end to student-based budgeting, arguing the formula denied resources to underfunded schools in low-income areas. But in recent years, the district made up for it.
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