Overview
- Chicago Public Schools notified 162 central and citywide employees on Friday, July 10, that they would be laid off, a move the district says will save about $18 million.
- The cuts include 82 central office positions and 80 citywide roles, and 63 of the affected jobs were unionized, including 38 represented by SEIU Local 73 and 25 by the Chicago Teachers Union.
- CPS says it exhausted non-personnel savings such as renegotiating vendor and service contracts and consolidating administrative services before moving to personnel reductions.
- The district plans to publish a roughly $10 billion proposed budget this week that officials say will show how they intend to close a roughly $732 million deficit and whether further cuts are needed.
- Affected staff work across many offices — from Talent and IT to Student Health, Counseling and Transportation — and unions and advocates warn the layoffs will have direct effects on workers and could complicate district operations amid reported county tax-timing and cash-flow pressures.