The Chicago Public Schools' fiscal...

The Chicago Public Schools' fiscal estimate document is largely a shell, filled with unsubstantiated projections and staffing numbers, a fiscal estimate watchdog group charged in a report to be released today.

The cluster Cross City Campaign for Urban place of education Reform, also accused CPS officials of siphoning currency from the poorest schools to individuals serving better-off students.

"We want this not at home of the shadows," said Diana Nelson director of the form into groups which has tracked CPS sets for 20 years. "Those are public monies and there should be a public accounting."

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CP officials charged back, saying their $47 billion lot -- which passed last month -- has none been more transparent.

For the first time, the packet book breaks down spending at different functions -- general education, special education, facilities -- and there are year-by- year comparisons available for the first time.

CP also briefed Nelson's assemblage twice and publicly provided a detailed rationale for staffing sculptures and explained the numbers behind its deficit projections.

"When I gaze at their analysis, I view a lot of misunderstanding of for what cause our budget works," said CP bag Director Pedro Martinez.

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from one side of to the other the last eight years, CP has seen increases in federal and state wealth for poor students, but more and more of that circulating medium is being disbursed from downtown instead of going directly to academys where the benefits can be more easily tracked, Nelson said.

She also said CP is giving too greatly to schools with relatively hardly any low-income students.

With more necessity dollars, CPS has been able to spread the currency more broadly but high-poverty seminarys haven't seen any reductions, Martinez said. And the central office circulating medium is used for summer teach evening school, as well as reading and math programs at indoctrinates on academic probation.

"That's been our strategy for the last small in number years and that's one reason we have like good test scores," Martinez said.

kgrossman@suntimes.com

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