CTU protests for additional Chicago Public Schools funding

Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters rallied Wednesday to demand more funding and a fix to the school district's financial crisis.

Wearing red and holding signs protesting for additional school funding, around 200 CPS teachers, parents and supporters picketed outside City Hall.

"The CPS budget is a joke, take from the TIFs that make us broke," protesters chanted while circling in front of the building's entrance.

The demonstration came a week after CPS released individual school budgets for the upcoming school year that included a per-student funding rate of $4,087 - the same as when school budgets were cut in February. But some say that's not enough.

At a news conference before the rally, aldermen, CPS teachers and supporters called for a per-student funding rate of at least $5,000 and the use of tax increment financing surplus money to funnel additional money into schools.

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