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LIVE BLOG: CPS votes on budget

By  Emily McFarlan Miller
   
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Update:

Chicago Board of Education passes $5.76 billion budget

The Chicago Board of Education is voting today on its budget.

Follow our Lauren FitzPatrick and other reporters today at the board meeting, below:

RELATED: Groups blast CPS budget as ‘shortsighted,’ based on gimmicks

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