Chicago Public Schools (CPS) released the 2022-23 school budgets that aim to strengthen rigorous standards-based teaching and learning following the past two challenging years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The $4 billion school budgets were created with feedback from community members, parents, and principals as well as an in-depth needs analysis to ensure the city’s public school system delivers a high-quality, equitable education to all students. Highlights include $72 million in teaching positions to support all schools in meeting the instructional core priorities and $45 million to expand schools’ capacity to advance practices connected to the instructional core focus areas. The School Year 2022-23 budgets include more than $290 million of investments, which includes the above-referenced $72 million to fund teacher positions across all schools based on school size and the District’s Opportunity Index, and $45 million to build instructional capacity at schools. A few of the investments include:  

• Fifty million dollars to ensure small declining-enrollment schools have resources to cover priority investments, an increase of $14 million from FY2022 small school allocations

• Six million dollars to add 53 school counselors to further bolster the 64 counselors added in FY2022 

• Twenty-one million dollars to increase nurses, social workers, and case manager staffing to an all-time high

• Continued centrally-funded support for professional development, teacher devices, and materials for schools implementing Skyline, the District’s  online curriculum

• Programming that supports college and career readiness, include Career and Technical Education, STEM, International Baccalaureate, and more.