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Discretionary Spending

Catalyst Chicago issue cover, published Apr 2005

Councils across the district are feeling financially squeezed this year, and those at schools on probation find themselves squeezed out entirely. The percentage of state and federal dollars going into schools’ discretionary pots is shrinking, and the purchasing power of those dollars has diminished significantly, a Catalyst analysis has found.

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Catalyst Chicago

Q&A with Sally Polasek

By Maureen Kelleher | November 8, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Notebook

By Catalyst Chicago | September 14, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

How poverty funds are spent

By John Myers | September 2, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Teaching parents to teach kids

By Debra Williams | August 30, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Budget crunch strains schools

By John Myers | August 18, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Homelessness on the rise in CPS

By Ed Finkel | August 16, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Law, consent decree require student services

By Ed Finkel | August 10, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

‘The school helps in every possible way’

By Ed Finkel | August 10, 2005
Catalyst Chicago

Daily activities become lessons

By Debra Williams | August 10, 2005
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Methodology

By Catalyst Chicago | August 10, 2005
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