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.
Does that include baristas? If so, then it’s a good deal.
#79 – #80 – Liberty Loser
Kind of a weak effort to deny the obvious, Loser – That you don’t have a leg to stand on, and this whole charade was yet another pitiful attempt by you to discredit Obama and anyone associated with him.
Good thing for us red-blooded American boys who love our country, it came to naught.
For Obama, at least. For you, it revealed what a jibbering, nonesense-spounting dunderhead you are, painting yourself into corner after corner with your own silly words.
Liberty Loser – O
Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. Just another ‘tempt or Paddy-RAMBO in training.