ChiArts funding vote postponed as CPS board debates budget consequences

The Chicago Board of Education has postponed a vote that would have provided extra funding for the school formerly known as the Chicago High School for the Arts — putting its vaunted professional arts training program in limbo a few weeks before the start of the school year. The resolution was meant to be the culmination of months of advocacy by the ChiArts community after the leaders of the privately run but publicly funded school voted against renewing their contract with Chicago Public…