From left: Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33), Ald. Matt Martin (47) and Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20) speak during a committee meeting Thursday.

Aldermen spent nearly three hours on Thursday grilling Chicago Public Schools officials over how they could consider making cuts to budgets in any schools while the city is still under the hold of the pandemic and whether student-based funding for schools is the right way to decide spending.