Public Education Scam Update:Clout consultants cash in on CPS rehabs

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

After five years as a top Chicago Public Schools executive, Sean Murphy now runs his own company.

But he’s still doing work for the school system, overseeing design for small remodeling projects at schools across the city as a subcontractor to URS Corporation under its contract with the Chicago Board of Education.

The pay: $338,000 a year.

That’s $88,000 more than the cash-strapped board pays Barbara Byrd-Bennett as chief executive officer for the city’s schools, $121,790 more than Mayor Rahm Emanuel makes and nearly $78,000 more than the city pays Garry McCarthy as police superintendent.

Public education sure is expensive!