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CPS Critics: School Officials Ignored Red Flags Over No-Bid Contract
(CBS) – At the heart of a federal probe into Chicago Public Schools is SUPES Academy. But what is it, and who is the man who founded it? CBS 2’s Derrick Blakley reports. SUPES Academy is housed in a...
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CPS Suspends Controversial No-Bid Contract At Center Of Federal Probe
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Public Schools have suspended a controversial $20.5 million contract with a company that provides leadership training to principals, amid a federal investigation of the...
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Feds: Ex-CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett To Plead Guilty To Corruption Charges
Updated 10/08/15 – 2:20 p.m. CHICAGO (STMW) — The former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, will plead guilty to charges in an indictment released Thursday that alleged she steered...
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Chicago School Watchdog On Federal Indictment: Told You So
(CBS) – Wendy Katten says she’s not surprised at the federal indictment of Barbara Byrd Bennett, the former head of the Chicago Public Schools administration. “I find it appalling — but not...
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Ex-CPS Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett Pleads Guilty To Kickback Scheme
CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme to steer more than $23 million in no-bid contracts to a former employer for $2.3 million in...
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Co-Defendants In Schools Kick-Back Scheme Plead Not Guilty
CHICAGO (AP) — Two co-defendants in a scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to an education firm in exchange for kickbacks to the former head of Chicago Public Schools have pleaded not...
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CPS Sues Byrd-Bennett, SUPES Academy For $65 Million
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Public Schools have filed a lawsuit seeking to recover $65 million from former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and SUPES Academy, the principal training firm at the center of a...
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Trial Date Set For Byrd-Bennett Co-Defendant
CHICAGO (STM) — Five months after former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty for her role in a brazen kickback scheme, an October trial has been set for one of her two...
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Player In CPS Contract Scandal Pleads Guilty
CHICAGO (STMW) — Another defendant in the SUPES scandal that ousted Chicago Public Schools’ former CEO has admitted his guilt Tuesday in the multimillion dollar kickback scheme that was captured in a...
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Mastermind Of CPS Contract-Rigging Scandal Pleads Guilty
CHICAGO (CBS) — The mastermind of a CPS contract-rigging scheme captured in detailed emails with the schools chief admitted his role Tuesday in the SUPES scandal that could send him to prison with the...
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Feds: Solomon Helped ‘Lay The Foundation’ For Byrd-Bennett To Head CPS
CHICAGO (CBS) — Federal prosecutors say that the mastermind of the contracting scandal that ousted Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett helped “lay the foundation” for her to take power so...
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Thomas Vranas Wants Probation For Role In CPS Bribery Scandal
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thomas Vranas asked a judge Thursday to sentence him to probation for his role in a bribery scandal that enmeshed the Chicago Public Schools and cost former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett...
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Former Schools CEO Byrd-Bennett To Be Sentenced In Bribery Case
CHICAGO (CBS) — Nearly two years after she resigned as the head of the nation’s third largest school district, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was set to learn how long she’ll be...
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Former CPS Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years
CHICAGO (CBS) — Admitting she was “terribly wrong” for arranging $2.3 million in kickbacks to steer a contract to her former employer while running the Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett...
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