When a high-level Chicago Public Schools official left for a job running a charter school in Indiana, he took with him the phony billing scheme that he ran here.
The former CPS principal and mid-level manager defrauded nearly $89,000 from the district before leaving for the neighboring state where he obtained more money in a similar scheme, according to an annual report published Wednesday by CPS Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht’s office.
The CPS inspector general detailed this and several other cases in which staff bilked the district. In another major finding, the school district will have to pay back $1 million to the federal government after submitting grant applications with false student enrollment data…