CHICAGO - Chicago Public Schools leaders presented a unified front on Tuesday with the mayor's office and powerful Chicago Teachers Union, but Wednesday's budget reveal might find the sides once again at odds.
New CPS CEO Macquiline King met the media alongside Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chief of Staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas and CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, after a series of budget briefings with City Council members and state lawmakers.
What we know:
The three might not be in agreement on how to solve a $734 million budget gap.
What they do agree on is that they need billions more from Springfield.
"You don't just owe someone $2 billion, and in fact, you don't just owe a school district full of young people $2 billion," Davis Gates said, referring to a Sun-Times article that rep