Paul Vallas:

Pritzker should revive School Finance Authority to take financial control of schools, approve contracts, audit programs, provide direction. Pursue a Consent Decree to remove obstacles to improving schools & provide poor parents with school choice. Here are the reasons. READ MORE.

•CPS spends $30K per student and has increased spending by 46% since 2019 despite a 9% drop in enrollment, yet only 1 in 3 read at grade level and 1 in 6 in math.

•There is now ONE full time employee for every 7.6 students in the school district as CPS has added over 9,500 full time budget positions and almost 7,800 actually filled positions since 2018.

•Half of the districts full time employees (over 22,000) are not teachers and there are over 7,500 district employees not even assigned to schools.