In case you missed the news. Chicago Public Schools announced that 82 high schools and elementary schools will change their bell schedules for the 2015-16 School Year (SY 15-16), part of a District-wide streamlining of transportation services. CPS is facing a $1.1 billion operating deficit as a result of declining state educational funding and a broken pension system. To avoid classroom cuts, CPS is shifting schools’ bell time in order to reduce transportation costs as part of $200 million in cuts to central office, operations and programming. The majority of CPS schools will keep their SY14-15 bell times. A list of schools with new bell times is available below. This list is also available on the District’s web site.

2015-16 CPS Bell Time Changes
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