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Cash-Strapped Chicago School System Spent Millions on Junk Food

Amid the review, the district spent more than $500,000 since July 1 on outside food and beverages, records show. That includes more than $135,500 to Alonti, roughly $74,000 to Dave & Buster's ... read more

Cash-Strapped Chicago Spent Millions on Food - Education Week

The Chicago school system spent millions of dollars to bring in food and beverages from area restaurants and catering companies, including more than $500,000 since July. read more

Chicago school system plans to borrow up to $389 million

Chicago's cash-strapped public school system plans to seek up to $389 million in short-term loans to avoid closing schools early for the summer and to make required pension payments next month ... read more

CPS spent millions on outside food; can’t say who got a third of it

Those are just some of the expenditures that a cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools made during the last school year, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars on fast food, according to ... read more

Cash-strapped CPS spent millions on pizza, subs - Chicago Tribune

Chicago Public Schools spent millions of dollars to bring in food and beverages from area restaurants and catering companies, including more than $500,000 since July, and now the district says it ... read more

Budget, bonds approved for cash-strapped Chicago schools

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved a controversial budget and moved ahead with plans to sell $1 billion of bonds despite the school system's "junk" credit ratings. The seven ... read more

Junk-rated Chicago school system seeks $1 billion bond sales

The junk-rated Chicago Public Schools will be selling up to $1 billion of new and refunding bonds pending approval of its governing board later this week. The nation's third-largest public school ... read more

Cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools set to borrow hundreds of millions ...

Chicago Public Schools officials are set to authorize $200 million of new borrowing to manage a cash crunch through the end of June while also taking out a separate line of credit to borrow nearly … ... read more

Bankruptcy `worst' option for cash-strapped Chicago district

Bankruptcy is no cure for junk-rated Chicago Schools’ fiscal ills, says schools chief Forrest Claypool. read more

Lawmaker Suggests Fund Sweeps To Bail Out CPS, Avoid Early Closing

A West Side democrat wants to tap targeted state funds to help the Chicago Public Schools stay open through the end of the school year. read more