Posted on 11/17/2025 1:13:53 PM PST by V_TWIN
For nearly two years the Office of Inspector General investigated travel spending at Chicago Public Schools.
The report found 'questionable, excessive and even exorbitant' travel spending across the district. Inspectors say it's fueled in part by federal COVID relief money and a broken travel expense process with no official oversight, according to a new report.
The report found eight schools used more than $142,000 of CPS funds to pay a vendor for 15 staff trips to Finland, Estonia, Egypt and South Africa. However 13 out of the 15 trips were not pre-approved as required. One trip was even rejected, but the employees went anyway.
In the particularly severe travel abuse section of the report one instance details a principal who booked a $400/night suite for himself and his wife for a professional development conference in Las Vegas. However the conference was at a separate hotel and started two days after their arrival, and ended after they already left.
Another shows a teacher spent $4,700 on a seven-day stay at a luxury Hawaiian resort for a four-day seminar.
Hundreds of employees employees spent $1.5 million of taxpayer funds on out-of-town seminars between 2022 and 2024, according to the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
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DON’T WORRY -—THE STUDENTS CANNOT DO MATH, ANYWAY
LOL! Excessive spending, good. Doubling excessive spending, bad.
“The system is broken.”
I don’t understand why more people aren’t outraged by this kind of abuse.
Especially when children are so poorly educated and in most communities the property tax assessment for the school board is often as much as 50% of your tax bill.
It isn’t the system that is broken.
Grifting “public servants”. Stealing from taxpayers and their union members.
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