CPS Special Education Discrimination: Background
Divestment and Diversion There has been a continuous stream of disinvestment from CPS and its students over the past decade. CPS has cut school funding repeatedly in order to redirect those funds to other priorities (e.g., Navy Pier, debt service, custodial privatization, wasteful and redundant school construction, subsidies for wealthy developers, etc.). Before the 2015-2016 school year, special education students had not been the direct targets of these divestment and […]