CHICAGO — Southwest Side schools have seen their budgets slashed by more than $2.25 million in the latest round of cuts to Chicago Public Schools.
Kennedy High School (losing $201,824) saw the largest cut, followed by Catalyst Maria Charter School (losing $148,368). While Blair (gaining $7,609) and Carson (gaining $24,356) elementary schools were given more funding, 33 schools in the area had their budgets cut.
In all, Southwest Side schools had $2,278,628 cut from their budgets. There was $85 million in cuts district-wide.
The cuts were necessary to keep "our schools' doors open for our students," said CPS CEO Forrest Claypool at a Feb. 8 forum. The district had planned on receiving $480 million in state funding, but that money has not come through and CPS is trying to make up the budget shortfall.
Here are the funding changes to Southwest Side schools:
• Ashburn Elementary School: -$47,883 (-1.86 percent)
• Azuela Elementary School: -$62,089 (-1.13 percent)
• Blair Elementary School: +$7,609 (+6.27 percent)
• Bogan High School: -$88,517 (-1.51 percent)
• Byrne Elementary School: -$93,529 (-2.73 percent)
• Carroll Elementary School: -$1,019 (-.04 percent)
• Carson Elementary: +$24,356 (+.38 percent)
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• Catalyst Maria Charter School: -$148,368 (-1.88 percent)
• CICS — Wrightwood Elementary Charter: -$64,397 (-1.36 percent)
• Dawes Elementary School: -$77,852 (-1.31 percent)
• Dore Elementary School: -$90,614 (-2.59 percent)
• Durkin Park Elementary School: -$68,622 (-1.89 percent)
• Eberhart Elementary: -$107,385 (-1.13 percent)
• Excel Academy Southwest: -$32,599 (-2.38 percent)
• Fairfield Elementary: -$40,820 (-1.18 percent)
• Gage Park High School: -$28,633 (-.91 percent)
• Global Citizenship Elementary Charter: -$65,178 (-2.28 percent)
• Goode High School: -$79,375 (-1.39 percent)
• Grimes Elementary School: -$39,563 (-1.53 percent)
• Hale Elementary School: -$116,119 (-2.21 percent)
• Hampton Elementary School: -$52,977 (-1.57 percent)
• Hearst Elementary School: -$1,408 (-.09 percent)
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• Kennedy High School: -$201,824 (-1.85 percent)
• Kinzie Elementary School: -$64,840 (-1.86 percent)
• Marquette Elementary: -$97,385 (-1.39 percent)
• McKay Elementary: -$25,620 (-.53 percent)
• Morrill Elementary: -$58,099 (-1.27 percent)
• Owen Elementary School: -$30,584 (-2.22 percent)
• Pasteur Elementary School: -$55,124 (-.75 percent)
• Pathways — Ashburn High School: -$49,516 (-2.96 percent)
• Sandoval Elementary: -$66,943 (-1.01 percent)
• Stevenson Elementary School: -$109,099 (-1.47 percent)
• Tarkington Elementary: -$38,403 (-.66 percent)
• Tonti Elementary: -$85,861 (-1.41 percent)
• Twain Elementary School: -$120,348 (-1.65 percent)
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