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Chicago spends billions on hiring teachers despite falling enrollment rates

By Barnini Chakraborty
Published August 15, 2021 11:00am ET
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Chicago spends billions on hiring teachers despite falling enrollment rates
A preschool student listens as her teacher talks during class at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Monday was the first day of optional in-person learning for preschoolers and some special education students in Chicago Public Schools after going remote last March due to the coronavirus pandemic. | (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, Pool)

The Chicago Board of Education recently approved a $9.3 billion budget using emergency COVID-19 funds from the federal government to hire 2,000 new employees, increase staff size, and distribute raises.

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