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Chicago Public Schools mandates that homework be assigned daily to students. Homework consists of meaningful assignments for completion during out-of-class time. Assignments for homework are based on classroom instructional activities and serve as motivation for further learning. Students are required to complete all assignments given to them while serving out-of-school or in-school suspension.

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Many homeschoolers have recognized the need for coming together to provide greater opportunities for our children. I appreciate the Wikipedia definition of a co-operative in understanding the purpose of these organizations:

“A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.”

Homeschool co-ops help to meet a variety of needs and challenges faced by individual homeschool families. Each is unique in their schedules, classes, expectations, size, beliefs, missions, requirements, costs, and benefits.

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Classical Conversations Chicago (links to their facebook page) Chicago, IL Email: Nancy at [email protected] Phone: 312-952-5221

A weekly homeschool community that equips parents and teaches children in the classical model of education with a thoroughly Christian worldview.  Their morning periods consist of memory work, art, science, and presentations. Meets at The Moody Church, 1609N Lasalle, Chicago.

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South Suburban Home School & Gym Group, Inc. Chicago Heights, IL Phone: (708) 754-2436 Email: Michelle Ewers [email protected] Website: SSHSGG.org

A cooperative group dedicated to providing healthy opportunities for the home school community through physical education, socialization, and creative classes. They strive to work together to exponentially add value to families by investing and sharing their God given talents each week.

CHAMPs (Christian Homeschool Arts and Music Programs) Mount Prospect, IL Email : [email protected] or [email protected] Website : http://www.champshomeschool.com

This weekly homeschool enrichment program is possible because of the loving efforts and volunteer support of member families.  They hold classes on Mondays from September-May at the Mount Prospect Bible Church in Mount Prospect, Illinois.  They join in fellowship to celebrate their children’s gifts and achievements several more times each year, as they demonstrate their growth in music, song, art, drama and foreign language.

Their class offerings are established by the needs and desires of the families.   Currently their program operates with over 90 families. Class offerings now include programs for preschool through high school students in all academic areas as well as performing arts and private instrumental lessons. They also offer social activities and family events outside of regular meeting days.

The Community Co-op Oak Park, IL Email : [email protected] Website : http://nearwesthomeschoolers.org

The Community Co-op is a family-oriented resource for homeschool families located in Oak Park, Illinois, serving Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.  They are a non-profit organization officially founded as the “Community Organization for Near West Homeschoolers”, but affectionately known as the “The Community Co-op.”  Their group offers homeschool enrichment activities for homeschooling families once a week, for a day of friends, fun and learning. Their mission is to create an environment for educational enrichment where homeschooling families can work co-operatively in an atmosphere of mutual respect and interest-driven exploration, while maintaining personal learning styles and sharing them with the group at large.

Their  blog and website incorporates all of the visionary foundations of the original founders while forging a new direction as the group continues to grow and adapt.  Homeschooling is a journey which not only touches the families, but also the larger community, and indeed, the world.   One goal of the site is to foster an enriching environment which contributes to the world in a way that puts big ideas, in little hands.

AJCW Collective Workshops Skokie, IL Email: Amy Jarjusey at [email protected] or Jennifer Kafizov at [email protected] Website: AJCW Collective Workshop

AJCW offers activities, classes, and social opportunities for our children, tweens and teens. We are relaxed homeschoolers and unschoolers who believe in the power of interest-based learning. We believe in learning through living. Children, youth and adults are naturally curious and highly motivated to learn about things that interest them, that they have questions about, and that they want to master. AJCW supports a community of learners in which children, tweens, teens and adults engage in activities that are meaningful, challenging, fun, and connected to real life.

AJCW is a secular community where all faiths, diversity, cultures and experiences are welcomed. We are committed to respectful relationships with those whose life experiences are diverse and expect the same of all participants.

REACH Skokie, IL ( Lakeside Church at 3939 West Howard) Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.homeschool-life.com/il/reach/

REACH is a group of homeschool families involved in the exciting and challenging project of homeschooling for high school, centered in Evanston but drawing from all over the northern and northwestern suburbs.  Students come together for a day of classes and camaraderie and dinner together. Their goal is to find the best teachers, recognized experts in their fields who are passionate about sharing their knowledge with students.  Located near Northwestern University is ideal for recruiting faculty and graduate students.  Sometimes their experts happen also to be homeschool parents! We Offer: A day of classes running from 12:30-7:30, to allow families who drive long distances to avoid rush hour on both ends of the day and to better to accommodate teen sleep schedules. The flexibility to take one, two or all three classes, and a quiet workspace with wireless internet to use when students are on site but not in class. Classes which are drop-off and do not require a parent to remain in the building.  Because of this, and because their goal is to offer a social experience as well as an academic one, the minimum age is 13. After the class day has ended, a meeting in the same location of the award-winning  Chicagoland Model United Nations Club, an independent high school club to which a number of their students belong.

Eastern DuPage for Godly Education (EDGE) Lombard, IL Email: (through their website) Website: www.edgehomeschoolers.com

Eastern DuPage for Godly Education  ( EDGE ) and their Friday co-op group Gym and Enrichment (G&E) were founded over seventeen years ago to support and encourage like-minded families.  EDGE began as a small gathering of families who met for gym activities, but has since expanded to offer enrichment classes such as art, tumbling, dance, drama, science and writing.  Their group is made up of Christian homeschooling parents and their children who volunteer their time and talents, collectively pooling their abilities so that many may benefit.

The Learning Vine Naperville, IL Email: Karine Bauch [email protected] Website: http://www.thelearningvine.org

The Learning Vine is a Christian supplemental homeschool program that meets on Mondays and Fridays at Community Christian Church on Emerson Ln. in Naperville, IL. The Learning Vine provides both academic and enrichment classes for grades Pre-K through 12 in a Christian environment.

Their Academic Program brings together the rigor and accountability of private school with the safety and control of homeschooling. Their Enrichment Program offers a wide array of fun, hands-on classes in the visual arts, athletics, perfoming arts, creative writing, hands-on science, and life skills.

Homeschool Kingdom Medinah, IL Website: www.homeschoolkingdom.org

Homeschool Kingdom meets Fridays for a spring and fall semester to offer Christ-centered electives, gym, and nursery for all ages.  They also offer Mom’s Hour that includes homeschool help and Biblical discipleship.

Homeschool University West Chicago, IL 60185 Email: Sarah Wagner [email protected] Website: www.homeschooluniversity.org

Home School University exists to provide an affordable opportunity for home school parents to customize and enrich their student’s education in a Christ-centered environment.

The Greenhouse Wheaton, IL Phone: (630) 462-9657 Website: https://www.greenhousecoschool.org/

Serving the western suburbs of Chicago, The Greenhouse was founded in 2001 to provide classical, Christian education to home-schooled students.

Classical Conversations Wheaton, IL Email: Sheryl [email protected]

Offering classes in Foundations, Essentials and Challenge A on Mondays at Faith Evangelical Covenant.

Heritage Home School Workshops New Covenant Bible Church in St. Charles, IL Email: [email protected] Website : http://www.heritagehomeschoolworkshops.com/

The purpose of HHSW is to provide high quality, academically challenging, spiritually uplifting classes to supplement, support, and encourage, but not to replace, what is being taught at home.  The classes are a unique, educational experience that combines a high level of commitment from parents, students, and teachers.  They strive to provide a Christ honoring and loving environment for all students to learn, be challenged, make friends, and grow in their relationship with their Savior.

They meet on Mondays with classes offered between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm. Students may take classes any hour that he or she chooses. The classes are designed to meet the needs of families with children ages K-12. Preschool classes are offered strictly for those families with registered older siblings. Heritage offers many high school classes needed for graduation as well as a number of special interest classes and classes in Christian living. Heritage also provides a Classical Education alternative.  Please visit their website for more information!

Christian Workshops of the Fox Valley (CWF) Elgin, IL Website: http://www.cwfhomeschool.org/ Email: [email protected]

CWF is a co-op of families that meet weekly (Mondays) during the spring and fall semesters at Epworth Methodist  Church in Elgin. The unique aspect of this co-op is that the parents volunteer to teach the classes. This keeps fees extremely reasonable and offers a wide range of classes led by fellow homeschoolers. They accept new families at the beginning of each semester and there is a cutoff date for entry. Each family shares in taking on a volunteer job as well as making a small purchase of basic supplies each semester to keep the co-op running smoothly and affordably.

GIFT (Godly Influenced Fine Arts Training) Church of the Brethren in Elgin, IL Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Website: http://www.gifthomeschool.org/

G.I.F.T. is A non-profit enrichment program, organized by volunteers, offering classes to homeschoolers of all ages (Pre-K to Adult). Classes are taught September – May by paid, professional teachers and are open to all homeschoolers regardless of faith.

Tri-Cities Enrichment Co-op (TEC) La Fox, IL Website : https://www.homeschool-life.com/2573/ Email : [email protected]

TEC is a Christian homeschool group of families who meet on Mondays in order to provide various classes to their children.

They meet on Mondays at Living Hope Church.

Their instructors are qualified teachers who love the subject areas that they are teaching. They pay these teachers to teach these classes. As part of the co-op, parents are expected to serve at the co-op during the times that their children attend. Since this is a parent run co-op, the success of the group depends on the involvement of caring, committed parents.

Classical Conversations Sugar Grove, IL Email: Fanesta [email protected]

Offering classes for Foundations, Essentials, and Challenge A at the Village Bible Church. Meets on Tuesdays

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Classical Consortium Barrington, IL Email: Jennifer Burns at [email protected] Phone: (847) 863-6867 Website: www.classicalconsortiumacademy.com

The Classical Consortium provides a unique and exceptional educational experience for homeschooled students in the Northern Illinois area. The Classical Consortium is a one-day-a-week, comprehensive, academic program that follows a classical method in both the subjects taught and how those subjects are taught. Students are in C.C. classes on Mondays and are responsible to accomplish homework from those classes during the week under their parents’ supervision. C.C. serves students in third through twelfth grades.

HEART (Homeschool Enrichment Achieved Respectfully Together) Barrington, IL Email: Jennifer Burns [email protected] H.E.A.R.T. classes and activities are held at:

The Village Church of Barrington 1600 East Main Street Barrington, IL 60010 H.E.A.R.T. (Homeschool Enrichment Achieved Respectfully Together) is a nine-month, weekly program for homeschooled children in kindergarten through 8th grade that supplements the teaching they receive at home.

Students kindergarten through fourth grades receive qualified instruction in the areas of art, science, Spanish, and physical education. Students are also able to take a class in music or drama. In addition, students are exposed to a wide variety of other subjects during month-long unit studies taught by parent volunteers.

Fifth through eighth grade students receive teaching in the areas of physical education; Spanish; speech; music, drama or biblical study; fine art or woodworking; and home economics or strategic games.

Fun Club Too Lake County, IL Email: Linda Strauss [email protected] Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fct_inquiries/

Fun Club Too is a inclusive homeschool group located in northeastern IL and southeastern WI. We meet two to three times a month on Thursdays for field trips.

Home Run Kids Gurnee, IL Email: See their welcome letter on their website for various email contacts Website: Home Run Kids

Home Run Kids is a cooperative ministry of Village Church in Gurnee designed to provide a healthy, safe and nurturing environment for home school families to experience community, fellowship, support and academic enrichment. The Home Run Kids organization and its leaders are committed to God’s word and His principles. We seek the participation of families who share this commitment to God’s word and to home schooling. This group is primarily intended for Village Church homeschoolers, but is open to others in agreement with their statement of faith as room allows.

Lakeland Home Educators Gurnee, IL Email : [email protected] Website : Lakeland Home Educators

Lakeland Home Educators seeks to provide support and encouragement to home educating families, foster Christian friendships, and grow individual relationships with Jesus Christ, becoming like Him while relating to their children, one another and the world. They meet together monthly for fellowship with discussion of various home education issues and concerns, offer encouragement and support to one another as mothers, email updates related to home education and events; parent initiated field trips; group activities and events for parents and children; and educational opportunities.

Apple Tree Lake Villa, IL Website : http://appletreechristianhomeschoolers.weebly.com/index.html

Apple Tree is a Biblically based cooperative learning enrichment program for homeschoolers pre-K through 12th grade. They provide hands-on supplements to your home curriculum including PE, drama, art, sports, music, accountability, fellowship and fun. They meet every Wednesday from September to April in Lake Villa, IL.

Classical Conversations Bolingbrook, IL Email : Lillian Docks [email protected]

Offering Foundations and Essentials level classes on Mondays in Living Water Community Church.

MOSAIC Enrichment Joliet, IL Email : Laura Gedge [email protected] Phone : 815-603-5434 Website : www.mosaicenrichment.com

MOSAIC is an extended learning program for homeschoolers.  They offer drop-off classes for K through 12 students that are taught by homeschool parents and specialized teachers.

Kids of Fatih Plainfield, IL Email : [email protected] Website : http://kidsoffaith.wix.com/kids-of-faith

KIDS OF FAITH Extension Program offers enrichment classes for fellowship, and provides a standard of quality, that upholds Christian biblical standards in Home School environments. KIDS OF FAITH’s goal is to team up with Christian parents who are home schooling in the Plainfield area.

Classical Conversations Rockford, IL (north) Email : Kirsten [email protected]

Offering a complete curriculum for K-12 students.

Classical Conversations Rockford, IL (South) Email : Margaret Margaret. [email protected]

Meets on Fridays at Morningstar Baptist with classes at three levels: Foundations, Essentials, and Challenge A.

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“I like Dr. Seuss and I feel like it’s a good book,” said Aujunique. “I like to read and I have a lot of books at home.”

Kaylani agreed. “Dr. Seuss is cool. I always love non-fiction books. It’s like real people,” she said.

The youngsters sat next to each other gazing at their books Friday in the Glen Park Academy library where they received a free book as part of School House Children’s Charities’ Mother’s Day Book Give Away.

Students in each grade took turns filing into the library and choosing a book from tables scattered about the colorful space. About 650 books were available.

“Every child and teacher is getting a book to build their home library to promote literacy,” said Brian Andreshak, founder and executive director of School House Children’s Charities and also a first-grade teacher at the school.

Andreshak said he purchased the books with grants from Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and the Legacy Foundation.

This year’s book give-a-way coincides with new Indiana reading mandates that call for the retention of third graders who don’t pass the I-READ annual assessment exam and requires elementary teachers to take an 80-hour professional development course on the science of reading and then pass an exam themselves.

“We’re not happy with it,” Andreshak said the new laws. “It’s just a money-making play. We have to pay $400 if we don’t pass, to take it again.”

Andreshak signed up for the course online and said it took about an hour to get onto the state website.

Instead of the mandates, Andreshak said Indiana should offer universal pre-K. “Build the core skills early on,” he said.

Last year, 52% of the school’s third graders passed the I-READ, the second-best total of Gary’s five elementary schools. Indiana’s statewide pass rate was 82%.

The school’s library was shuttered as part of a wave of cost-cutting moves after the Gary Community School Corp. fell under state control in 2017 because of its dire financial status.

The wave of layoffs and cost cuts helped trim the budget deficit, but left students with shrinking literacy options at their schools.

When Glen Park Academy Principal Eric Worthington arrived in 2021, he made reviving the dormant school library a condition of his hiring.

“I said you can’t have a school with a single-digit reading score and not offer literacy,” Worthington said while watching students choose their books.

He spent about $20,000 of school improvement money to buy books. A vendor, Half Price Books in Orland Park, Illinois, donated 20 cases of new books to restock the shelves.

School officials said last year each elementary was reviving its library with redesigns to highlight a theme. In 2023, just 47% of Gary third graders passed the state reading exam.

Housing challenges, poverty, and relationship breakdowns all lead to more transient children in urban districts like Gary.

Worthington said the high student mobility impacts test scores.

Like Andreshak, Worthington thinks holding back third-graders who don’t pass the I-READ is bad policy that will lead to more dropouts.

“Give us the resources to remediate kids,” Worthington said, citing decreased state funding.

Despite the financial struggles, Worthington is proud of the resurrected library that’s seen the addition of hundreds more books in recent years.

“We probably put $60,000 in books into the library. It’s a showcase. It’s the heart of the school,” Worthington said.

“This room is alive. This was a labor of love,” he said of its return.

Carole Carlson is a freelance reporter at the Post-Tribune.

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Chicago Teachers Union Demands Public Schools Double as Homeless Shelters

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A 142-page leaked set of demands by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) reveals a plan for public school facilities to be used as shelters for homeless families.

The new union demands call for using schools as “sheltering places,” a move traditionally outside the purview of bargaining.

“Such sheltering places shall have a night-time custodial team of at least two custodians, along with social service provider staff to consult with families and connect them with housing support and other services for which they may qualify.”

The proposal, which was first reported by Illinois Policy on May 2, demanded that authorities “undertake a facilities assessment process to identify schools with vacant, unused floods ... to be converted into dormitories for unaccompanied youth.”

As part of its demands, the CTU added that it would “partner with trade unions” to create a program that “builds affordable housing” and “green home renovations.”

Demands by the CTU to convert public school buildings into homeless shelters were first floated in 2019 by Lori Lightfoot, then the mayor of Chicago.

Despite that Ms. Lightfoot’s proposal wasn’t implemented, other unions around the country latched on to the idea and began making similar demands, including in Boston, Los Angeles, and Oakland.

The Oakland Education Association’s contract included a memorandum instructing the city’s school district and the union to identify “possible locations that could be developed into housing for unhoused and housing insecure” students.

In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former teachers union organizer, promised that it would be a top priority for his administration to find accommodations for the city’s homeless, with a particular focus on the more than 20,000 students in Chicago Public Schools he claims currently face housing instability.

“The people of Chicago voted for me because I said that I’m going to address homelessness,” Mr. Johnson told reporters in March.

However, the city is currently facing a fiscal crisis, making new funding for schools difficult to secure.

Earlier this year, the CTU contributed $400,000 to Mr. Johnson’s failed attempt to increase school funding through a real estate tax hike. During the campaign, the CTU received an ethics complaint for lobbying students and pulling them from class to vote. After the measure failed, Mr. Johnson vowed to continue his push to fill the coffers of city schools.

Other demands of the CTU include that boys’ bathrooms carry free menstrual products, that school employees take LGBT education classes, and a “$1,800 per semester stipend to every school to have a Climate Champion.”

“The Climate Champion will coordinate school-based climate justice initiatives“ and ”serve as a liaison to the school for district wide climate justice initiatives,” according to the document.

However, critics claim current demands from the CTU are only the latest stunts employed by officials in an attempt to prop up the nation’s failing public education system as increasing numbers of Americans continue opting out of public school. For more than a decade, the Chicago public school system has been hemorrhaging students—losing nearly 20 percent of total enrollment between 2013 and 2023—mirroring a nationwide trend that accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

State-level statistics for the 2022–2023 school year showed the downward trend continuing, as the drop in public school attendance led many districts to cut staff or even close schools.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Facing a budget cliff, CPS lets teachers out of school to lobby Springfield

District leaders will join teachers for a lobbying day in the state capital. critics say the day away from classrooms is inappropriate..

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union at a rally in January. Teachers are getting a day off school next week to lobby in Springfield for more funding from state lawmakers.

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Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union plan to turn up the heat on state lawmakers Wednesday, with more than 600 staff being given the day away from classrooms to go to Springfield to rally for more revenue.

Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and the school board president will join staff at the state capital as the district stares down a budget deficit of more than $400 million this year. So far, the district has yet to say how it is going to balance the budget, instead insisting it is counting on the state to provide more funding.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has recommended that K-12 education get an additional $350 million in the budget for the next fiscal year starting in July, but the boost falls well short of what would be needed to fully fund schools under the state’s own education formula. CPS gets about $1 billion less per year than called for under the funding formula, and under the proposed budget, many school districts across the state will continue to get far less than what they would need to by fully funded.

School district officials say it is important the district “present a united front” to the governor and lawmakers. The union has been pushing for a joint lobbying day at the state capital for some time. With the ascension of former CTU organizer Brandon Johnson to mayor, union leaders say for the first time in years the school district and the union are on the same page and can make their funding case to the state together.

“It is an important moment,” says CTU Vice President Jackson Potter.

But the plan to release so many teachers from school is coming under fire from critics who called the move inappropriate and have questioned whether it violates ethics policies that prohibit political activity while working for the school district.

But a CPS spokesperson said supporting candidates or referendums is barred but not lobbying for legislation, which is what will happen on Wednesday.

Potter said such lobbying was common practice in the past, especially before the mayor and the union became so adversarial. In fact, when he and CTU President Stacy Davis Gates worked at the now-shuttered Englewood High School 20 years ago, they were given the day off to go to Springfield and push for more revenue.

“So here we are back at it again,” Potter says.

The lobby day comes as principals and local school councils are grappling with how much the district plans to allocate to them next year. Some school communities say they are facing fewer resources and will be forced to lay off staff or do away with programs.

The district has yet to release school level budgets, as they have in the past, so it is impossible to know how widespread the cuts are.

Potter says some of the most compelling voices at the lobby day will be staff who work at selective enrollment and magnet schools. Local School Council members and parents have been vocal about these speciality schools losing resources, as the district prioritizes spending at the neediest schools.

State lawmakers also are considering a bill that would prevent CPS from disproportionately cutting the budgets of selective enrollment and magnet schools.

The budget deficit is coming to a head this year. For the last four years, the district’s structural deficit has been blanketed by $2.8 billion in federal COVID Relief money. Chicago Public Schools used most of that money to hire more staff, including teachers, extra support for struggling learners, counselors and tutors.

Martinez said federal COVID funding has gotten the school district to where it needs to be. But now, as that money runs out, like several school districts CPS is facing a budget cliff.

Karp covers education for WBEZ.