‘professional development….’
Another: waste-fraud-abuse.
“Educational” seminars for “educators” are complete BS and fraudulent for the most part. Mainly they are taxpayer-funded vacay for these integrity-free losers who aren’t doing much to educate children anyway. Just look how achievement test scores have dropped over the past decades.
What a pathetic racket.
And at the same time that stories like this are coming out, other stories are coming out about how Chicago property taxes have doubled on middle class homeowners and they are pissed. I guess we’ll see if it gets them to change their voting patterns.
I participated as a vendor, in ISTE, which is a very large educational conference held around the country. It is held in Chicago during the eight year rotation.
Teachers would come to the show, but we had to schedule “private meetings” at a local hot spot to see decision makers. In CPS the principals ran their schools like their personal business, and controlled everything that went in.
Even during Obama’s first inauguration, where we had to install 868 schools for video conferencing, there were schools with no projectors. Back before the days of large TVs. And many of the schools required a gift to the principal, or a free lunch for all the teachers that flowed through his fingers.
There is so much money that gets filtered in that district, greasing fingers along by the way.
Blackjack practice.
You can’t stay overnight or have conferences in Chicago. You could be killed. Totally justified.
“… and formed a new Travel Review Committee this month.”
I wonder how much this new committee will cost. Salaries, offices, per diem, catering for meetings, consultants, palm greasing, all cost something.
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DEI and Somalians are top two gov’t rip off artists. In Chicago, working for the gov’t, getting EBT n welfare from the gov’t, are about the same thing.