COVID-19 relief package could mean $5 billion for Illinois schools, including almost $2 billion for CPS

With the new federal assistance from the American Rescue Plan Act arriving after CPS already received hundreds of millions of dollars in previous federal pandemic support, Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said the funds “must address the massive inequities and harm that Black and Brown students and families have suffered as a result of COVID-19 — and to be frank, were suffering long before the pandemic.”