Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday announced amended calendar and budget proposals for the 2019-20 school year, which add make-up school days and reflect additional revenue and investments for Fiscal Year 2020. Last week, CPS agreed to make up five of the 11 school days missed due to the teachers’ strike, and families are being notified this week of the amended calendar and budget plan. As part of the agreement to end the CTU strike, CPS committed to making up five of the 11 instructional days that were missed during the strike. The make-up days must be scheduled on days on which teachers and CTU staff would not otherwise be paid, which severely limited the district’s scheduling options.  The following proposed make-up days are spaced over a series of dates during the school year that were not previously scheduled as student attendance days and a small number of additional school dates at the end of the school year:

• Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019

• Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020

• Friday, Jan. 3, 2020

• Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (previously scheduled as a School Improvement Day for staff, which has been moved to June 19)

• Thursday, June 18, 2020 (previously scheduled as a School Improvement Day for staff, which has been moved to June 22)

For additional information on the amended FY20 budget proposal, please visit cps.edu/budget.