Lawsuit on the Way
Progressives are morons....and so is the CTU:
Chicago Public Schools is officially moving away from a school funding formula that pitted schools against each other as they competed for students and critics say undermined schools as they lost enrollment.
District officials announced Thursday they are implementing a formula that targets resources for individual schools based on the needs of students, such as socioeconomic status and health. They will abandon student-based budgeting — a formula unveiled a decade ago under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel that provided schools a foundational amount of money based on how many students were enrolled.
And then they put this in print?
- Schools will then get additional funding based on the opportunity index, which looks at barriers to opportunity, including race, socioeconomic status, education, health and community factors. Because it will be so important this year, principals have been working with CPS officials to make sure their status on the opportunity index adequately reflects the current conditions in their schools.
We're pretty sure it's a violation of Federal Law to base funding on race. It's how many lawyers get rich.
And we'll just remind everyone:
Labels: dumb ideas, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
51 Comments:
Catholic school enrollment will soar.
I remember lots of people pushing others to enroll in neighborhood schools to save them.
Time to switch back.
Maybe the policy should be restated as "No Failure Left Behind".
No need to close them.
Just announce they are being vacated and the squatters will flood those empty halls, rooms and commodes with squatter magic!!!
No need to have electric supply, natural gas nor even city water.
The squatters will bring their own sources of heat and light and moistures.
Why, each and every vacated cps building will become it's own village!
Filled with villagers from distant lands, bringing their native cultures to increase exponentially our city's die fucking versity!!!
Chests and nuts roasting on an open fire
Jack shit piled against the walls
those aren't schools, they are babysitting locations for moron's
So basically all of the enrolled students could all fit into any 2 of the larger schools. All the rest of the schools tax payers are just shoveling cash into a furnace.
Don't need books, few of them can read!
Hmm, from each according to his ability to each according to his need.....
They really need to do a deep dive on the "community factors".
A detailed index calculation that considers:
So-called grocery store deserts.
Nail, weave, eyelash businesses.
Liquor stores.
Storefront churches.
Grandma-headed households.
Roadside tributes of plastic flowers, candles, balloons.
Street curb litter from the consumption of FLAMIN’ HOT® and grape drank.
Many of our wives work at CPS, they'll be the first to admit how shitty it is. My better half hates her union being run by communist. Student don't put any effort. You don't have to pass to advance(like we did when we took the Iowa test) The social studies teacher is making lesson plans which explain why socialism is better than evil capitalism. Pure stupidity.
You would think that if there were only 44 students in the entire school(Douglas)it would almost be like private tutoring. Yet, none of them can read????? I guess tenure is a wonderful thing. Dig a little deeper, how many teacher. support staff, etc are employed at that school?
And there is your housing for illegals!!!!
And their solution is to take money away from high performing north side schools and give it to these schools because.....equity or something.
The indoctrination centers known as the Chicago public schools have untold amounts of taxpayers, money, billions and billions of dollars to spread out anyway they please there is no accountability at all. Keep on stealing the feds don’t even care but go ahead and be late on a tax payment or a water bill watch how quick they go after you! CPS is nothing but a criminal Rico organization
Wow, with so few to teach, one would think it’s these indoctrination centers, er schools would have higher scores. Fewer students means higher teacher to student ratio, which usually means better results.
Ask how many teachers teach anything speaking English anymore?
Our system continues as a total mess. No functioning brain cells in adults or kiddies.
Very very sad.
How about bringing back the old system of going to your local school. That's how it was when I was young. The only busing was for field trips. Look at the savings to be had.
"Funding based on race".
Well, there it is.
Maybe start closing all CPS and make them Charter schools. Def get rid of some if not all the dead weights who are NOT qualified to teach as well. There should be recertification every year.
BUT.... They have a great basketball program!
Those schools remain open because the CTU managed to get language in their last contract forbidding the city to close them.
Don't expect mayor Jitters to take a harder line either....
The CTU's ability to strike and throw tens of thousands of families lives into chaos virtually guarantees they will never accept any meaningful concessions...ever.
Waste of resources and high taxes in Chicago, is the reason I'm moving out of Illinois as soon as I retire!
Print up the vouchers. Give parents a choice and children a chance.
How pathetic.
What a bunch of dumb fucks….
But if there was a class on becoming a street entrepreneur via robbing,
thieving, drug dealing, shooting or general assholery, those dumb fucks would
pass with flying colors and earn that cap and gown for their future newspaper photo…
Damn. Gale and Field, putting up the student proficiency numbers! Rogers Park Stand Up! One kid out of 20 proficient in math, science. Probably the same kid!
The CTU has nothing to worry about as long as Mayor Conehead is in office.
No keeses for them!!!!
My kids attend CPS, I'm suing. I'm calling Jesse Jackson.
With those enrollment numbers each student should be getting private tutoring by the staff - but instead the kids can’t even read. This is a disgrace! You know not one teacher or administrator has been fired because they don’t need them.
What would schools get under the new funding formula?
Resources for every school under new formula:
1- Principal
2- Assistant principal
3- Core classroom teachers
4- At least one counselor
5- A clerk
6- Money for professional development
7- Custodians
8- Engineers
9- Security
10- Lunchroom staff
11- Before- and after-school programming
Additional resources for schools with higher needs:
Chicago Public Schools ending student-based budgeting in favor of set staffing levels at all campuses guarantees:
1- Instructional coaches
2- More teachers for smaller class sizes
3- More counselors
4- Tutoring
5- Intervention supports
6- Advocates for students who are homeless
7- Special education positions
8- More support for English language learners
9- Social emotional supports
10- Restorative justice coordinators
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/03/21/chicago-public-schools-ending-student-based-budgeting/?fbclid=IwAR1fdKFKmNyEqZezLc42nOaahMdTilAbfvgM3EkE70xBRm1kLhrXdnHDHBc
Shut er down prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance cps is the perfect example
How many of those schools had a school officer assigned. Asking for a friend.
Keep sending your kids to CPS and bullshitting yourselves about how great they are.
Would having an idiot as mayor effect the opportunity index too??
Education choice vouchers ! Fuck the CTU they ain’t educators , they are socialist communist indoctrinators CPS students are so far behind in the nation average in all subjects if fact they are turning out functionally illiterates that will never make it into society ! The commiecrats got them right were they want them dependent upon the government for everything, on the Democratic Plantation ! There are still some good teachers, and a lot of teachers that are only interested in money , and don’t give a fuck if there students are functionally illiterates ! There pay should be based on the results of there students test scores !
To each according to his needs?
When the president of the Chicago indoctrination center cheated on taxes by living in Indiana does not send her children to the CPS indoctrination centers says a lot plus she’s ripping off how many hundreds of thousands of a year is she taking? Was there ever an audit done, and all of that money Much was given to Brandon to buy the election? So many questions so easy you don’t need federal investigators. All you need is a child in an eighth grade class that is not part of the indoctrination center to figure out the math. How much is being stolen? How many billions from the taxpayers over the years many of them people should be in prison 100% for many years but it will not happen just like the elections are stolen money a stolen that’s what evil does the face of evil is the Democratic Party
The two columns on the right of that chart scare me the most. We (CPS) have been turning out illiterate morons for decades now.
How can kids graduate from school when they can't read and write?
One of many historical facts that the media never raises. 2019 delegation from CTU visited Venezuela and returned praising the socialist regime. Guess all the individuals that have fled Venezuela didn't realize how fortunate they were to live in such a wonderful country.
those numbers are amazing. You have a school capacity of 1200 and only 64 are attending? And they still can fucking read, write or do math? It certainly isn't because there are a lack of kids needing schooling. We have enough of those. It just looks like most of the parents (or should I say baby's momma) has realized their kids aren't learning shit in any of these schools so they are removed. Does this list include the "alternate" schools where all the shitty kids are sent to after being kicked out of regular school? I bet those are filled past capacity!
Tenure needs to go! Obviously the teachers have given up on these kids and in a way I don't blame them. You can't teach someone who refuses to learn. On the other hand, they know they will never get fired and will always get a paycheck so whatever. They don't care either. I don't think shutting the schools down is the answer long term but getting these kids to fucking learn will mean more kids will eventually be attending as parents (baby's momma) will then start to send their kids there.
Wish it wasn’t happening but going to the courts is getting harder and harder in Illinois
City and state courts are not on our side, even if they are appellate court will overrule and then the Illinois Supreme Court will make final determination. Good luck with that
All in, the 10 high schools on the list have a total of 1366 students.
All of them could be consolidated at Tilden or Austin and the other 9 buildings could be shut down and sold.
Obviously, the logistics of hauling kids from all over the city to one place would be an issue but I'm certain Vanecko School Bus Co. would make CPS a fair deal.
An old David Letterman interview was with a senior who was the only one in her graduating class in S Dakota.
Seems Chicago could give her a run for her money.
Of course they lived in the middle of no and where
Obviously, the logistics of hauling kids from all over the city to one place would be an issue but I'm certain Vanecko School Bus Co. would make CPS a fair deal.
3/23/2024 12:13:00 PM
Dude, get over it. If all you can come up with is some stupid shit using Vanecko's name, you need to get a fu--ing lfe.
Part 1: CPS principals and network chiefs frivolous spending.
The inside info on the 'hush hush' federal investigation of 10+ CPS schools centers on their principals and CPS Network Chiefs pissing away millions of dollars on frivolous purchases, including from non-approved vendors, while using each school's Internal Accounts and Budget Transfers to make these purchases. And CPS not allowing the Feds to examine their and their schools' finances.
Each CPS principal gets a certain amount of funds in their budgets and èarmarked for specific purchases. Principals can then move this money around to make other purchases, but they need their LSCs approval on something called Budget Transfers. The approval is a rubber stamp procedure and more of a formality as most LSCs approve these transfers nearly 100% of the time at LSC meetings without questioning the principal.
In December 2023. Steinmetz principal Anna Vilchez wanted to transfer money over from a school account used for educational services and supplies to pay for $4000 in catered food for her teachers and staff to feed them during a Professional Development Day (teacher meeting, no students in the building). Unfortunately, the Steinmetz LSC is beyond dysfunctional and didn't have enough members to have a quorum and vote on transferring $4000 over.
Steinmetz LSC has featured a father (Jose Quiles) and daughter (Vanessa Valentin) team as a community and parent reps. These two reps have been approving budget transfers and money spent in the school’s Internal Acvounts for Steinmetz tshirts, hoodies, caps, and uniforms bought from an approved CPS vendor named Santana & Daughter aka Santana Print, Inc.
Who owns the print business? Why it's co-owned by Quiles' Daughter and Valentin's sister Diamaressa Quiles-Santana.
Whò is Jose Quiles? Owner of a Puerto Rican merchandise distribution company in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood. Quiles also approves budget transfers on the Mary Lyon and Belmont-Cragin schools' LSCs as well as for Riis Park on their advisory council. This includes purchases from his daughter's print business. And Quilès was involved in the money mismanagement of the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Humboldt Park.
Part 2: CPS principals and network chiefs frivolous spending
Who is Vanessa Valentin? She's Quiles' Daughter and $100,000+ Community Representative for Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th).
So, what did Steinmetz Principal Vilchez do? She was able to get the $4000 approved by their network chief Laura Lemone.
Let's put this is perspective. Steinmetz has:
- 60+ employees making over $100,000
- 75% of their employees make over $75,000
- 4 administrators making a combined $575,000/year
- Principal Vilchez alone makes $163,000/year
- $4,000 was moved from an account used for services and supplies for Steinmetz ' students to pay for catered food for the Steinmetz staff
- the Professional Development Day fell on the day before Winter Break when teachers are in one huge meeting for kess than 1/2 the day and bullshit around in parties the rest of the day.
- $50 per Steinmetz employee is what the $4000 catered food covers. Basically $50 lunches for their employees.
In 2015, CPS OIG/former CPD detective Nicholas Schuler found CPS principals and central staff pissed away $2.9M over 2 years for catered food for their employees on pizza, sub sandwiches, chicken wings, catfish nuggets, and $6 blueberry muffins from the Alonti Cafe.
Think about all this, then think how much money it's going to cost taxpayers when every school has all these $100,000 mandated positions. It's job giveaway for jobs where showing up and staying awake is the toughest part of the day with little to no accountability to get work done.
Steinmetz has a 68% graduation rate and a horrible 69% Freshman on Path to Graduation rate, meaning 31% of Steinmetz' Freshman students dropout or transfer before its time to graduate in 4 years.
This production deserves $4000 worth of lunches for each Steinmetz employee?
Next, huge recruiting effort at CPS high schools. Quality candidates needed for CPD.
Part 3: CPS principals and network chiefs frivolous spending
Steinmetz HS principal Anna Vilchez somehow received approval to spend close to $3000 on employee lunches for their school's Professional Development Day meetings on December 22, 2023 from Sweet Baby Ray's, including pulled pork, barbecue chicken, steakhouse salads, mac and cheese. and banana pudding along with $150 setup fee and $75 tip.
Vilchez asked Steinmetz LSC for $4000 but they failed to meet to approve the budget transfer for the $4000. Who approved the spending then?
The order for Sweet Baby Ray's was placed on November 28. 2023 anď two weeks the Steinmetz LSC meeting that the vote to transfer the $4000 was to take place.
So, where did the $1000 go?
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the CPS OIG found principals and central office employees had spent $2.9M on food and beverage purchases for themselves and other employees.
"Cash-strapped CPS spent millions on pizza, subs"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/09/16/cash-strapped-cps-spent-millions-on-pizza-subs/
Why are taxpayers on the hook to feed CPS employees for a 1/2 day teacher meeting?
Bears sued for discriminating vs white males in 'Diversity' job post limited to 'people of color,' women
It's called hazard pay. They just dressed it up...
Anonymous said...
Obviously, the logistics of hauling kids from all over the city to one place would be an issue but I'm certain Vanecko School Bus Co. would make CPS a fair deal.
3/23/2024 12:13:00 PM
Dude, get over it. If all you can come up with is some stupid shit using Vanecko's name, you need to get a fu--ing lfe.
3/23/2024 05:36:00 PM
Not the original commenter, but damn right, Vanecko/Daley criticism is still fair game.
The arrogance and greed of the family across generations.
How is this a thing!? Yet the IRS will come after me for not reporting or failing to report $100 +/- on my tax return. These jerks just don't use shit and continue to ask for more. F you.
Progressives aren't morons. They're evil people that know exactly what they're doing to people. They love chaos, all the while making money for themselves.
Results matter
Many CPS students are not ready for college or the work force
Many are below average in reading,writing and math
What about grooming and dress standards
Look at CPD recruits from CPS
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