CPS’s Chief Talent Officer Alicia Winckler said, typically, about 60 percent of the staff let go over the summer find new jobs at other schools in the system.
Jackson Potter, staff coordinator for the Chicago Teachers Union, said it’s still too many layoffs in a system already starved for resources.
“It sort of like, hey, we cut the most we’ve ever cut in the last two years and we cut a little less than that this year, so therefore, it’s not so bad, doesn’t seem reasonable, or accurate, or considerate to the families that are going to suffer a further reduction of the essentials that their children need and deserve,” Potter said.