The Chicago Public Schools district will be laying off over 2113 employees this Friday, according to an announcement from the Chicago Teachers Union Thursday evening.
Of the 2113 educators, 1036 serve roles as teachers, while the rest included teacher assistant, food service employees, and janitorial staff in the largest layoff of district employees in the recent years. The massive firing followed the June closing of 54 schools which led to the dismissal of nearly 850 employees.
"It's unconscionable for a mayor who has found creative ways to create new bike lanes, a bike share program, lure white collar jobs and massive investment to the loop and gold coast -- but blames Springfield and teachers for CPS's budget crisis-- to layoff over 3,000 educators in the nation's third largest school district."
The Chicago schools layoff was caused by the failure for the Illinois congress to reform the pension crisis that threatened the public school system.
Becky Carroll, the spokesperson for the Chicago Public Schools, expressed that the city has to deal with a billion dollars in deficit, 40% of which is due to pension obligations that the city had wished to reform.
As the budgetary year for 2014 began on July 1, the legislative session in Spring failed to reduce the pension contributions due and widened the deficit of the third most populous city in the United States.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis expressed her shock in the dishonesty of the school system. "Once again, CPS has lied to parents, employees and the public, about keeping the new school-based budget cuts away from the classroom."
Though Mayor Rahm Emanuel had asserted that there's no money for the Chicago schools, he is arranging $55 million to build a new hotel and basketball stadium for DePaul University, according to Daily KOS.
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