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Friday, June 1, 2012

CPS board of ed fraudulently collects merit pay funding. « Fred Klonsky

CPS board of ed fraudulently collects merit pay funding. « Fred Klonsky:


CPS board of ed fraudulently collects merit pay funding.


The Chicago Public Schools board of ed took $33 million in federal funds for a merit pay program.
One of the requirements for receiving the funds was involvement by the Chicago Teachers Union.
Which CPS didn’t bother to get.
Nor would they have gotten since it CTU President Karen Lewis made it perfectly clear that the union was not doing merit pay.

CTU president Karen Lewis says the union told CPS from the get-go that it wouldn’t sign on to any form of merit pay. She said the district is committing “grant fraud.”

“You have not met the terms but you go ahead and you take the money. That’s