{"id":22968,"date":"2025-07-14T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/kriza-u-cikagu-otpusteno-vise-od-1-400-radnika-skola-medju-njima-i-stotine-nastavnika\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:20:00","slug":"kriza-u-cikagu-otpusteno-vise-od-1-400-radnika-skola-medju-njima-i-stotine-nastavnika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/vesti\/kriza-u-cikagu-otpusteno-vise-od-1-400-radnika-skola-medju-njima-i-stotine-nastavnika\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Chicago: Over 1,400 school workers laid off, including hundreds of teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is facing a serious financial crisis that has led to the layoff of as many as 1,458 employees, including over 400 teachers and hundreds of teaching assistants. This dramatic decision was made as part of a budget restructuring for the next school year, all due to a deficit exceeding $730 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an official statement, the CPS stated that the changes are necessary to allocate resources more efficiently, but that they understand how difficult decisions like this can be for employees. \u201eWe are committed to providing support to all affected workers during this process,\u201c the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, layoffs were delayed due to delays in passing the budget, and the number of laid-off workers increased by 3.2% compared to the previous year, when 1,110 workers lost their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those dismissed are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>432 teachers, including 132 special educators who are members of the Chicago Teachers Union<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>311 auxiliary workers and technical coordinators<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>677 special education assistants, members of SEIU Local 73<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>33 security guards and 5 parent coordinators, also from SEIU Local 73<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CPS states that the number of employees may change in accordance with student needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mitigate the consequences of layoffs, a job fair is planned, as data shows that previously 80% of laid-off workers managed to find new employment within the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\">SOURCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicago-news\/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-over-1400-staff-members-including-hundreds-of-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WGNTV<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aktuelnosti.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">,<\/a> PHOTO: SCREENSHOT<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0160kolski sistem \u010cikaga (Chicago Public Schools \u2013 CPS) suo\u010dava se sa ozbiljnom finansijskom krizom koja je dovela do otpu\u0161tanja \u010dak 1.458 zaposlenih, uklju\u010duju\u0107i vi\u0161e od 400 nastavnika i stotine pomo\u0107nika u nastavi. Ova dramati\u010dna odluka doneta je kao deo bud\u017eetskog restrukturiranja za narednu \u0161kolsku godinu, a sve zbog deficita koji prema\u0161uje $730 miliona. U zvani\u010dnom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5123,"featured_media":16741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[368,653,369],"tags":[1509,3092,370,15186,26481,26482,14376,18690,26483,26484,26485],"class_list":["post-22968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vesti-amerika","category-cikago","category-vesti","tag-chicago-public-schools","tag-chicago-teachers-union","tag-cikago","tag-cps-budzet","tag-deficit-730-miliona","tag-nastavnici-otpusteni","tag-otkazi-u-cikagu","tag-otpustanja-2025","tag-pomocnici-u-nastavi","tag-seiu-local-73","tag-skolska-kriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagodesavanja.us\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22968"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}