CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools teachers and student advocates are pleading for federal funding to assist city schools overwhelmed by an influx of migrant students with bilingual education needs. Migrant students across the CPS system are struggling to learn in classrooms led in English, and many need help meeting basic material needs, such as winter clothing to wear in freezing temperatures, they said. “The city doesn’t have the capacity, and the city doesn’t have the infrastructure to shoulder this crisis,” Chicago Teachers Union President Stacey Davis Gates said at a roundtable event Wedne…
