State officials are asking Chicago Public Schools to repay $87.5 million the district mistakenly received in 2018 during the rollout of a new state school funding formula.
A contractor working with the Illinois State Board of Education during former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration made a coding error that overstated the enrollment of students at charter schools in districts with more than one charter school, officials said this week. CPS is the only district with more than one charter school, so it was the only system to get money it shouldn’t have.
