More Millions Pissed Away

So is the media going to keep a running tally of what CPS/CTU is costing taxpayers like they do for the Police Department?

Or is that just going to be CWB's job?

• The Chicago Board of Education will vote Wednesday on a proposal to pay $17.5 million to a former CPS student who endured years of grooming and sexual assaults by her high school dean.

  If approved by the board, the agreement would resolve a lawsuit filed last year by a former student of Greater Lawndale High School for Social Justice at 3120 South Kostner Avenue in Little Village. The suit accused CPS of ignoring warnings and enabling a culture in which employees repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct with students.

Remember, at last count, we were told there are over four hundred CPS employees (including teachers, coaches, assistants, janitorial staff, security personnel) who are on some form of suspension for sexual offenses against students. Many are still being paid until the "investigations" are finished....or paid off.

This one just happened to make it out of the holding pattern.

And speaking of holding patterns:

• A former Chicago Public Schools STEM teacher who admitted taking part in a multimillion-dollar Southwest Airlines voucher scam received a sentence of a year and a day in federal prison on Monday, bringing an official end to a sprawling scheme that prosecutors say drained the airline of nearly $2 million.

  Ned Brooks, who taught at Fiske Elementary in West Woodlawn and spent more than two decades working in CPS classrooms, received his sentence after pleading guilty last year to one count of wire fraud.

Who would have thought that schools could be such hotbeds of sexual and financial corruption?