CPS District 10th Day Budget Adjustment Based on Enrollment

I won’t comment much here except to say it is frustrating when CPS releases data to the press (not to Continue reading →

Adding in the CPS Facilities Plan Data…

UPDATE: We’re already updating the data based on crowdsourced remarks that we research and can verify.  Please see bottom of this Continue reading →

A History of CPS Enrollment 1999-2014 (Rough Draft)

It is difficult to do data work on CPS data.  Schools move, close, open, split, co-locate, turnaround, change names. I’m Continue reading →

The Answer: Which Schools = More Money in FY14?

Please see Part I here. (You can download my preliminary spreadsheet which merges an overview of the FY14 Budget figures Continue reading →

Did Charter Schools get more $ or not?

In the wake of The Chicago Reader’s article about Wendy Katten and Andrea Zopp’s exchange about the budget on WTTW’s “Chicago Continue reading →

CPS Revised Budget; Adds Budget/Positions at Specific Schools

First, let me commend Central Office for restoring some desperately needed funds to schools facing devastating cuts for 2013-2014 in Continue reading →

Need to update CPS A/C and Facilities Data

Here is a spreadsheet from the depths of the CPS website regarding an audit of Energy Star data at many Continue reading →

The Real CPS High School Grad Rate Trend: What is it?

I caught this blog post by Lauren Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Sun Times and it made me wonder…why is the Continue reading →