Cuppaccino machines for Chicago public schools

The Chicago Sun-Times, in a ‘Waste of Money’ report, says that Chicago public school staffers skirted rules to buy 30 coffeemakers, changed athletes' grades and falsified addresses.

Chicago public school bureaucrats skirted competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked for them.

That was just one example of questionable Chicago Public School actions.

This happened under the watch of Chicago Public Schools superintendent Arne Duncan who has been named to the cabinet of president-elect Barack Obama at the Secretary of Education.

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