Chicago School District Waste

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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, according to a report by the CPS Office of Inspector General.

That was just one example of questionable CPS actions detailed in the inspector general's 2008 annual report. Others included high school staffers changing grades to pump up transcripts of student athletes and workers at a restricted-enrollment grade school falsifying addresses to get relatives admitted.

In the case of the cappuccino machines, central office administrators split the order among 21 vocational schools to avoid competitive bidding required for purchases over $10,000. As a result CPS paid about $12,000 too much, according to Inspector General James Sullivan. "We were able to find the same machines cheaper online," he said.

"We also look at it as a waste of money because the schools didn't even know they were getting the equipment, schools didn't know how to use the machines and weren't prepared to implement them into the curriculum," Sullivan said.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

$ 492,798 ...Dishes .... bought by the Bushes for the White House..... as they are leaving.

Part two: What happened to the other ones (the ones they have been using) .. Bushes taking them back to Dallas with them??

Compares a lot to the Marie Antonette comment.. "Let them eat cake". They really don't get it..... and what the financial condition of the country is.