Chicago Public Schools had to pay back nearly $1.2 million to the U.S. Department of Education after an employee repeatedly falsified data on federal grant applications over the course of multiple years.
Those findings were included in an annual report published Wednesday by the school district’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), which is tasked with investigating allegations of CPS employee misconduct.
According to Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht, a CPS program manager allegedly engaged in repeated grant fraud by overinflating the number of students enrolled in their program in order to pull in additional federal funding for the district’s American Indian Education program…