What is your school district spending money on? Check out some new spending data available on our spending transparency website, IllinoisOpenGov.org. We have included school vendor information for you to check out! We’ll also be updating current information (Payroll, Checks to Businesses & People, Retiree Data) soon, so keep a eye out for that too.
Tag Archives: chicago public schools
Raises in Chicago Public Schools or Not?
Check out this revealing (and entertaining) story by Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky about the maze of Chicago Public Schools spending and the difficulties in figuring out exactly where all the tax dollars are going and why. Joravsky’s piece, “A Raise By Any Other Name” particularly addresses how top administrators with Chicago Public Schools “budgeted themselves [...]
Chicago Board of Education Credit Cards Canceled
Thousands of dollars in artwork, limos, expensive meals and liquor charges by employees of the Chicago Board of Education, such as former presidents Michael Scott and Rufus Williams, along with their staff, have come under scrutiny, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman has canceled the credit cards of 89 Chicago Board [...]
Transparency in CPS Special Ed?
How is that $87.8 million spent? A Chicago Tribune piece today discusses how the “state Board of Education is looking into questions about the “accountability and transparency” of millions of dollars in state money that Chicago Public Schools receives each year to pay the salaries of its special education teachers.” Read more about it here.
$67,000 in Taxes for Cappuccino Machines
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the nation’s third largest district, bought 30 cappuccino machines for a culinary arts program. Many months after the purchases, 22 hadn’t been opened and one disappeared. Three are in use — BUT, not for the culinary arts program. The Chicago Tribune reported “employees separated the purchases to stay under $10,000 so [...]
Liberty Leader Jeff Singer presents transparency to Chicago Public Schools
Right before the holiday break (December 17th) Liberty Leader Jeff Singer presented a transparency proposal to the board of the Chicago Public Schools. The meeting got off to a bit of a late start due to the fact that CPS president Arne Duncan had, the day earlier, been appointed Secretary of Education. Nonetheless, Jeff spoke [...]
Live blogging from the Chicago Public Schools board meeting
Liberty Leader Jeff Singer of Chicago is speaking in front of the CPS board today on the subject of fiscal transparency. Kate and I are at the meeting–along with Liberty Leader Adam Andrzejewski–to watch Jeff’s presentation. I will be live-blogging Jeff’s comments and the board’s reception. 11:00-We’re still waiting for things to get going here…Public [...]