CPS Shortfall is the Fault of Police
- A newly-acquired secret agreement obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) confirms that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) diverted about $70 million, largely from teacher salaries and unemployment benefits, to avoid paying teachers a promised 4 percent contractual raise last school year. The money was instead given to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), mostly as payment for services previously rendered under prior agreements. CPS then falsely told the media that these payments were “owed” to CPD, and that CPS “had no choice” but to make these payments.
Records obtained from the FOIA lawsuit show that CPS has been paying about $8 million per year to CPD since 2002 for two police officers to be stationed at approximately 100 high schools to process arrests of juvenile offenders. The officers are supervised exclusively by CPD personnel. CPS provides, at its own expense, computer terminals connected to CPD for the officers’ use. CPS approved this continuing arrangement on February 24, 2010 (10-0224-PR16), authorizing the $8 million annual payments from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2012, for a total cost of $32.8 million.
This is one of those accounting tricks that fools a lot of people. The Police Department manned over 100 CPS high schools for years. The salaries of the officers were paid for out of the CPS operating budget. The city is just moving money from one account to another since everyone involved works for the city.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
36 Comments:
Divide + Conquer = Victory
I've always said follow the money trail. They put money in one pocket and the move it to the other pocket.
Gov. Quinn cutting medicare or is it medicaid by $1.7 billion dollars giving sick kids and the elderly that played by the rules a kick in the azz and now we see $1.7 billion being awarded for transportation. Basically road resurfacing projects and some rail crossings. Who's gonna do that work? Who that create jobs for? The min-wage illegal immigrants that Rahm is waving across the border to come on in.
We can't afford the health care of our own citizens. We can't afford the education system that we have now. However the mayor and soon the city council will be waving the illegal immigrants in telling everyone to leave them alone.
Why? You tell me. Is there an illegal immigrant lobbyist awarding millions of dollars in campaign contributions?
Or maybe the political apparatus is so hard up here it's the $1,000~$2,000 dollars in federal aid that the state gets per person.
Create another crisis that you can use Rahm. Jam those non-english speaking law breakers into the classrooms that distract the teachers from teaching science and math skills.
These people are not fixing the crises they're creating the crises
I think you're taking this a bit too personally there SCC.
The Teachers Union is basically just suggesting that his Rahmificence used an accounting trick to avoid their pay raise.
The trick just happens to involve the PD.
Take a deep breath, now exhale the bad. Think of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.
I'm not that smart, but this I know for sure. Any union that agrees on a contract with this city that states a raise will be contingent on WHAT they can afford, is a moron. Whether the city can afford 30% or 1% they are gonna tell you 1%... wtf.
hey they have to get paid too
BUT,.. that is figured in already
so the teachers and the city know this already
Tiny Dancer just trying to stick to the teachers and make CPD the fall guy
I took a big breath and exhaled. My wife is a teacher and my family was shorted a raise in pay by trickery. I think the fact finders publish their report on the 17th. Hopefully there is a 4% retro in their recommedations.
My last gripe is why do I have learn of this on SCC. I go to Chicago Breaking News and don't find this infomation. The news is sxxt.
The staffing of school police officers in CPS high schools has been the best bargain CPS has ever stumbled into. The yearly amount paid by CPS is much lower than what it costs the City in salaries and equipment. Teachers are the greatest beneficiaries of this program, so their union should be applauding, instead of complaining. In some schools, POs are the only line of support and defense for teachers.
That was f'in funny. I can't stop picturing McCarthy, Wysinger, and Kirby sitting around a ouija board; in a circle, candles lit, Indian style and in full dress uniform.
7/08/2012 08:27:00 AM
Check out the latest JIBJABS!
http://cpdjibjabs.blogspot.com/
Time to take all CPD out of the schools and hire more security guards. And, did you read where the teachers union has admitted that if a teacher is assaulted at school in any manner, they are sent to a shrink, the same shrink, who diagnoses them as having post traumatic stress disorder and they can be granted paid leave for up to two years? Wow! How about the cops who are assaulted. Don't they have PTSD? his shrink states that everyone who is attacked has PTSD. Maybe this should be added to the next contract?
This is a "Chicken or the egg question."
Are the Chicago Public Schools the worse in the Nation because the students are unteachable or the teachers that incompetent?
Teachers and Principals used to maintain order and discipline in the schools with cooperation from parents in line with community expectations. When they can't or won't, and an education is not valued more than the latest pair of designer sneakers, money has to be spent elsewhere.
Are downstate public schools paying the police to "babysit"?
Political correctness dictates more treating the symptoms, not the source of these problems. Don't blame the police!
Demand a pay raise for CPS , CFD and CPD . Chicago is a sanctuary city and provides health , housing , education , food for illegals . Write a report for every crime that 's reported to you. Do not violate any citizens rights with an illegal vehicle stop or search , drive by , go home safe to your family .
The Chicago Shell Game
No one is accountable in this banana republic.
The Teacher
an outside audit of all city agencies is needed. what are the real numbers? where is the money really going to? wont happen since the democrats control the game.
Umm, no, it's not money moving from one City account to another. The City and CPS are independent of one another financially. This was a really transfer of resources.
Can I unload about that 4% raise thing, please? Teachers didn't get their 4% raise. But they got cost-of-living and step increases. The number on everyone's paycheck went up, and yet they're still complaining.
Is it any wonder that ordinary taxpayers - many of whom haven't seen a raise in years - are pissed? Not at all.
We're the bad guys for everything else so why not this too??
Hey Scc … I’m sure that 70 million went to Officer’s in some over time initiative. Oh wait, those officer’s were pulled from the watch which means they were working anyway. Why pay additional?
rahm you are a fu$%ing piece of shit!!! you will not win jag off!!!
The rest of the press release makes it clear how much they are trying to play cops and teachers against each other - this invented debt to the CPD involved a retroactive increase of $17 million per year plus $47 million for services already rendered. Which seems like taking money which had already been paid and allocated in past budgets and charging it to future teacher salaries. Which makes one wonder where the actual shortfall is - not in what CPS "owes" CPD, but maybe a little recent 4 day expense?
Anonymous said...
I'm not that smart, but this I know for sure. Any union that agrees on a contract with this city that states a raise will be contingent on WHAT they can afford, is a moron. Whether the city can afford 30% or 1% they are gonna tell you 1%... wtf.
7/11/2012 03:35:00 AM
Well it's nice to dream. Regardless of how much disgusting corruption and hemorraging of cash ANY mayoral administration permetrates, the end result is the same. YOU CAN'T GET A JUDGE TO ORDER THE CITY TO STOP PISSING AWAY MONEY ON NON ESSENTIAL EXPENDITURES!!!
The City can deliberately bankrupt itself without anyone being able to stop them. Sure they could stop fucking over taxpayers and pissing away their cash on political cronies and put that money where it's supposed to go like employee payroll and pensions. But that doesn't get you re-elected, so they dictate that they'll KEEP pissing away our money and then blame employees for the lack of funds, to which the stupid among us actually cheers on the politicians to take away our pay and benefits as if THAT'S somehow going to work out in the stupid people's favor.
What we CAN do is have a judge dicate that we WILL continue to be paid at our current rate and that NO benefits be taken away unilaterally without negotiation. THAT much is fact.
What happens after that means, there's gonna be no money left because that's what they WANT to have happen. They WANT to have no money left so they can try and force pay cuts across the board on NON crony employees.
After that, it's back to the usual pissing away of our money for votes.
Fact is, they HAVE spent the money and will never stop misspending it. There WON'T be much left for raises because you have to raise revenue for raises, because they won't stop pissing money away on non essential services.
So when they say they don't have the money, you can bet their close to the truth. Trying to push for 20% raises is only going to backfire.
We'd better be happy with 2% for 2 years and negotiate again at the end of 2 years. That's all you're gonna get if you can even get that.
Be happy the racoon doesn't have the ability to force us to leave the job like scranton. Here, we'd leave for some other minimum wage job and no one would ever qualify for this job again.
Some of you talk like the unions are infallible. That's a LAUGH.
FOP? Yeah right they are going to get you good money when they don't even go after iron-clad grievances.
CTU? They'll talk a good game but cave in. WHY?
Look to the west in California. Another city declares bankruptcy. You guys don't see the writing on the wall - the Well has run dry.
It's fairly common knowledge that Rahm wants school officers out of those schools, & in beat cars. In ghetto districts, like 011, school officers make as many arrest as most beat cars. Take into account, we're talkin a district with Orr,(mostly warring vicelord factions) Manley, Marshall, Raby, and Phoenix Military Academy,(mostly latin kings and 26ers) Few months ago, Orr & Phoenix decided they could do without their officers. Since then, Phoenix calls everyday, all fuckin day...constantly tying up 2 beat cars with their kings /26ers bullshit. Orr isn't much better. Guess who's decided they want officers back in their schools? Fuck'em!
Every union member should read this:
http://mayoraltutorial.com/articles/rahms_evil_never_sleeps
-CTU teacher
And isn't it funny that those same officers probably had their salaries paid out of the police budget!!
It gets better -- Daley, and now Rahm, still have a budget for 13,500 police officers, but they aren't paying that money out for 13,500 officers!! Where does the money for the nonexisting police officers go to on payday??
Oh the Humanity of It All!!!
Never f__ing satisfied. Bottomless pit, this "education."
OK, bad police out. Give the teachers handcuffs and let them wrassle their own wild animals to the floor. "PTSD" will be the least of their worries.
To 8:59pm-
Read 7:56pm right above you! They get the idea behind the post dumb ass! Its not teachers complaining about paying cops. It is "why" does the city do this? What is their f ed up motive for moving money. Let me. Spell it out for you : City of Chicago is CORRUPT. Say it with us now. Get a clue now. Hope your not a detective!
Anonymous said...
The staffing of school police officers in CPS high schools has been the best bargain CPS has ever stumbled into. The yearly amount paid by CPS is much lower than what it costs the City in salaries and equipment. Teachers are the greatest beneficiaries of this program, so their union should be applauding, instead of complaining. In some schools, POs are the only line of support and defense for teachers.
7/11/2012 06:52:00 AM
True. In some schools they need more than 2 cops because the children are so out of control. CPD is most effective and a definite bargain.
The City can deliberately bankrupt itself without anyone being able to stop them. Sure they could stop fucking over taxpayers and pissing away their cash on political cronies and put that money where it's supposed to go like employee payroll and pensions. But that doesn't get you re-elected, so they dictate that they'll KEEP pissing away our money and then blame employees for the lack of funds, to which the stupid among us actually cheers on the politicians to take away our pay and benefits as if THAT'S somehow going to work out in the stupid people's favor.
7/11/2012 02:07:00 PM
You're right. I saw a news program today featuring a story on the number of cities going bankrupt. They took a poll and asked the public what cities should do to fix the problem A) Reduce public workers salaries and benefits B) Raise prop tax revenue C) Increase taxes or fees...NONE of the choices was to investigate the politicians who misspent the money and who are responsible for the financial issues. That was not a choice. You can imagine that over 50% of respondents voted to solve the problem by reducing public employees salaries and benefits. Amazing. Nope, this will be a bandaid as you suggest and the problem will remain until the next crisis.
"...did you read where the teachers union has admitted that if a teacher is assaulted at school in any manner, they are sent to a shrink...[the] shrink states that everyone who is attacked has PTSD."
--7/11/2012 08:13:00 AM
Traumatic? How about passengers on CTA buses that are suddenly flooded, jammed, packed full by the shouting, elbowing, object-throwing, spitting, stinking horde that is released into the street every afternoon? It is enough to make you pull the emergency window release and just slide down the side and walk away.
Elderly people cannot do this, so are forced to attempt to hold onto their seat, hold onto their purse and groceries, and pray that they will not be knocked to the floor and trampled.
Some of you talk like the unions are infallible. That's a LAUGH.
FOP? Yeah right they are going to get you good money when they don't even go after iron-clad grievances.
CTU? They'll talk a good game but cave in. WHY?
Look to the west in California. Another city declares bankruptcy. You guys don't see the writing on the wall - the Well has run dry.
7/11/2012 03:01:00 PM
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The well is only dry when no new planters get installed in the middle of perfectly good streets.
The well is only dry when there is no money to bribe Ceasefire.
The well is only dry when Rahm Emanuel's staff is not offered ten and twenty percent higher salaries than their predecessors.
The well is only dry when there is no money for weeklong Puerto Rican Fest.
The well is only dry when there is no money for multi-million dollars boathouses.
Until then, spare us the platitudes.
I know that the posters who are making disparaging remarks about teachers aren't officers because we are all on the same side and we are all getting screwed. If you are an officer making remarks about teachers, you really need to rethink what you are saying because (once again) we are all on the same side. If teachers broke bad on officers like the insults about teachers I am reading here, we would not hear the end of it.
If you are an officer and don't like Chicago, don't like the citizens, and don't like your job - maybe there's a job in a downstate town for you - then you can write tickets for going 40 in a 25 mile zone and watch the corn grow.
Having worked been assigned to one of these "schools" I can tell you that we were never provided ANY equipment by CPS personnel
I saw a news program today featuring a story on the number of cities going bankrupt...
In Scraton PA, cops with 2 years or less otj had their pay cut from $26.00 an hour, to $7.25 an hour. Minimum Fucking Wage! For Police Officers! This country's headed toward the shitcan in rapid fashion.
Here's the story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/11/scranton-cuts-cops-pay-by-70/
I know that the posters who are making disparaging remarks about teachers aren't officers because we are all on the same side and we are all getting screwed. If you are an officer making remarks about teachers, you really need to rethink what you are saying because (once again) we are all on the same side. If teachers broke bad on officers like the insults about teachers I am reading here, we would not hear the end of it.
If you are an officer and don't like Chicago, don't like the citizens, and don't like your job - maybe there's a job in a downstate town for you - then you can write tickets for going 40 in a 25 mile zone and watch the corn grow.
7/12/2012 04:25:00 PM
There was a CPS teacher on tv and you tube recently talking about how the police are bad bad bad. She was marching for some cause. Think she was occupy person. We get slammed by teachers all the time lady. There's no love and unity between us. You guys can't stand us but I understand you all would like to use our numbers in personnel to further your goals. Good luck with that.
I know that the posters who are making disparaging remarks about teachers aren't officers because we are all on the same side and we are all getting screwed. If you are an officer making remarks about teachers, you really need to rethink what you are saying because (once again) we are all on the same side. If teachers broke bad on officers like the insults about teachers I am reading here, we would not hear the end of it.
If you are an officer and don't like Chicago, don't like the citizens, and don't like your job - maybe there's a job in a downstate town for you - then you can write tickets for going 40 in a 25 mile zone and watch the corn grow.
7/12/2012 04:25:00 PM
There was a CPS teacher on tv and you tube recently talking about how the police are bad bad bad. She was marching for some cause. Think she was occupy person. We get slammed by teachers all the time lady. There's no love and unity between us. You guys can't stand us but I understand you all would like to use our numbers in personnel to further your goals. Good luck with that.
7/13/2012 03:16:00 AM
Yeah and I watched a video of a cop beating up a bartender. Doesn't mean that are best and brightest make the Tv for either side. Ask teachers if they support the police and you'll be suprised by the number that do. You base your opinion on a goofy bitch probably druged out. Teachers like her have no clue what life Is like. There are more out there like her, but not nearly as many as you think.
-not original poster-
There was a CPS teacher on tv and you tube recently talking about how the police are bad bad bad. She was marching for some cause. Think she was occupy person. We get slammed by teachers all the time lady. There's no love and unity between us. You guys can't stand us but I understand you all would like to use our numbers in personnel to further your goals. Good luck with that.
7/13/2012 03:16:00 AM
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So, there was someone on YouTube, the ultimate resource for truth and information, who purported to be a CPS teacher. And, because you didn't like her, you declare that 'we' have no love or unity between 'us'.
I guess you were using the royal 'we', meaning I, because you don't speak for so many of us who realize the ONLY way we will overcome this power-happy mayor is by uniting.
Many of us have a teacher or two in the family. Whether you like it or not, we're all in this together. We have a common need and a common goal. Don't let your ego blind you to the only means we have to overcome this onlaught on public employees.
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