Chicago Public Schools spent 77% of the $1.49 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money on employees’ salaries and benefits and the district has seen “extra pay” skyrocket during the pandemic, according to a 2023 report from the district’s Office of Inspector General.
The report provides many critical conclusions, including a concern over abuse of extra pay for employees in the form of overtime or stipends for taking on extra duties. The cost of extra pay for district employees increased from $42.5 million in 2017 to $73.9 million in 2021.
There was also widespread fraud by “deliberately miscoding” truant students as transfers […]
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