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Cash-Strapped Chicago School System Spent Millions on Junk Food

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

Chicago school system plans to borrow up to $389 million

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's cash-strapped public school system ... and junk bond ratings for Chicago Public Schools. The planned borrowing follows Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's veto in December ... read more

Emanuel: CPS likely to borrow against extra $45 million property tax increase

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday that cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools is likely to borrow against a $45 million property tax increase ... and capability to actually make a modern school system," ... read more

Parents, food service directors debate snacks sneaking into kids’ diets at school

One person’s healthy snack is junk food in the ... director of food and nutrition services for the Montgomery school system, which serves more than 70,000 meals a day. In fiscal 2010, Montgomery ... read more

New CPS board appointee resigns from organization that got a school contract

As one wealthy member of the Chicago Board ... seats at charter schools that also are her companies’ customers. Quazzo told the Sun-Times she saw no conflict of interest between her roles as steward ... read more

The fast-food industry’s $4.2 billion marketing blitz

And it is in the cafeteria, I think, where the fast-food industry’s marketing efforts could be effectively rebuffed. Unfortunately, I don’t have much good news here, either. Currently, we spend ... ... read more

Chicago schools budget counts on uncertain funding

Escalating pension payments have led to drained reserves, debt dependency and junk bond ratings for the nation's third-largest public school system. The CPS budget also assumes a $269 million ... in ... read more

Expanding Federal Food Programs: Means-Tested Aid for Families with Children

In that context, calls for long-term increases in spending on school meal programs are irresponsible. Understanding the Means-Tested Welfare System Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, ... read more

GOP decries "nanny state" push on junk food ads

A proposed set of voluntary guidelines backed by the Obama administration designed to limit the marketing of junk food to children through ... will likely only range up to age 12. Food companies, ... read more

Fox Valley schools ponder ways to bridge state funding shortfall

Bruce Rauner has dismissed several plans as bailouts for cash-strapped Chicago ... schools and allow the district to spend money on longer-term expenses, such as hiring additional staff to lower class ... read more

10 Things Fast-Food Companies Won't Say

Cash-strapped schools are increasingly turning to fast-food ... thanks in part to aggressive lobbying on the part of the fast-food industry. In 2010, restaurants spent $9.3 million lobbying Washington ... read more

Illinois tax credit scholarships on hold after website crashes

“Some parents spent three ... more than $36 million to the program on the first day donors became eligible for the tax credit. Critics of the tax credit have argued that it takes money away from often ... read more