Rahm’s School Closings – What Happened To The Desks, Laptops, Books?

BGA reports:

Two years after Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered 50 low-enrollment schools in a move that enraged families on Chicago’s South and West sides, officials can’t say where many of the computers, desks, books and other items from those buildings ended up.

For more than six months, the Better Government Association pressed Chicago Public Schools to detail the location of the materials, presumably worth many millions of dollars.

Only recently did CPS acknowledge that it simply doesn’t know where much of the classroom equipment is – blaming the school system’s disgraced former CEO, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, for poor record keeping. Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty in 2015 to accepting kickbacks and bribes in exchange for awarding CPS contracts.

Public education as a racketeering enterprise.