BUDGET LIES AND LIARS -- That three quarters of a billion dollars that Rahm's people 'cut' from the CPS 'administrative' budget? David Vitale could tell you that it never existed -- if he checked his notes from 2006. Reminder -- If you're going to tell a lie, tell a whopper and repeat endlessly...
Eight years ago, as the first graphic with this article shows, the Chief Executive Officer of Chicago's public schools (Arne Duncan), the Chief Administrative Officer (at that time, David Vitale), and the Chief Financial Officer (at that time, Pedro Martinez) stood before a press conference to detail the fiscal (FY 2007) 2007 budget for reporters. It was June 6, 2006, and in those days CPS officials hosted regular press conference at CPS headquarters so that reporters could ask questions and get answers from the officials who supposedly knew about such things as, in this case, the budget of the third largest school system in the USA.

Three years after that, Arne Duncan was U.S. Secretary of Education. David Vitale was President of the Chicago Board of Education. CPS had had a half dozen or so "Chief Financial Officers" since Pedro Martinez left for Nevada.
And CPS officials tried to tell the public that between May 2011 and July 2014, under the sharp-eyed administration appointed by Rahm Emanuel, CPS had cut "administration" by $740 million!
At three budget hearings held in Chicago on July 16, 2014, various officials of the nation's third largest school system presented the public with a 15-page Power Point. And on one of those pages, the officials claimed that an administrative budget that in 2006 was around $200 million had somehow bloated up to around a billion so that the miracle team assembled by Rahm Emanuel was able to cut three quarters of a billion dollars from it!
One difference between June 2006 and July 2014 was that the Board of Education no longer holds press conferences, so reporters don't get to answer questions. And if a reporter has a question, the answer is likely to be given by a person from the CPS "Office of Communications" who doesn't know anything about the complexities of the $6 billion CPS budget, but is Budget lies and budget liars - Substance News: