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Chicago Public Schools' cappuccino bill: $67,000

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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.
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Chicago Public Schools' cappuccino bill: $67,000 :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Education

Didn't O pick his education guru from Chicago's public school system?

:roll:
 
The best part:

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.
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No, asshole, they paid about $67,000 too much. I don't care if they coulda got them for $100 each! A public school should not have a ****ing cappuccino machine, ESPECIALLY on my ****ing dime, assholes!
 
That has to be the worst waste of money I have heard of since the bailouts. Man our government are idiots on all levels. From the local on up to federal. :roll:
 
Blackdog said:
That has to be the worst waste of money I have heard of since the bailouts. Man our government are idiots on all levels. From the local on up to federal. :roll:
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Our Chicago politicians take the cake, though. If they haven't come up with a way to waste money, it is physically impossible for that way to even exist.
 
Tucker Case said:
Our Chicago politicians take the cake, though. If they haven't come up with a way to waste money, it is physically impossible for that way to even exist.
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I thanks the powers that be I moved away from Chicago in 2006. Never looked back either. :lol:
 
Blackdog said:
Can't argue with that. South side! Go Sox! Oh wait. :doh
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It's nice to meet a fellow Sox fan! Every other Chicagoan here seems to be a Scrubs fan. :mrgreen:
 
Tucker Case said:
It's nice to meet a fellow Sox fan! Every other Chicagoan here seems to be a Scrubs fan. :mrgreen:
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No sh**. I have been all over the country and around the world. No matter where I went a scrubs fan popped up. I blame WGN and cable access. :rofl
 
You know, I dream of opening a private school, and I have some fairly big ambitions for that school-- big dreams that would require one hell of a budget for equipment, materials, and personnel. Computers, sports equipment, fitness training equipment, high quality nutritious foods, laboratory equipment...

... and I'm still not sure I would ever need cappucino machines badly enough to spend $67,000 on them.
 
Blackdog said:
No sh**. I have been all over the country and around the world. No matter where I went a scrubs fan popped up. I blame WGN and cable access. :rofl
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You think that's bad? My wife is one of 'em!

I grew up on the North Side, but always loved the Sox, so I'm used to it by now.
 
Tucker Case said:
You think that's bad? My wife is one of 'em!
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I feel for you man! ;)

Tucker Case said:
I grew up on the North Side, but always loved the Sox, so I'm used to it by now.
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I grew up on E. 92nd place. I know, it was rough. My best friend in 3rd grade got shot for not joining a gang by (low and behold) another kid. My parents moved to Park Forest after that. So I got lucky.

So being the South sider I am, it was the Sox and of course the Bears. Never liked Hockey though so the Hawks got dissed by me.
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
You know, I dream of opening a private school, and I have some fairly big ambitions for that school-- big dreams that would require one hell of a budget for equipment, materials, and personnel. Computers, sports equipment, fitness training equipment, high quality nutritious foods, laboratory equipment...
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What sort of a school?
 
1069 said:
What sort of a school?
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Full service K-12 with students grouped by skill proficiency instead of age or grade. Curriculum would be the classic liberal education with an expanded physical education program and more upper level classes.

Think I'll start a thread about it over in Education.
 
As a recent product of America's public school systems I am ashamed that you guys have not gotten used to this. I mean, honestly, I come from one of the best school districts in North Carolina and our school district is still run by those same people who use words such as "utilize" when "use" would suffice; they think it makes them sound smarter, but all it does is draw attention to their enlarged noses pointing sky-high.
Our current public school systems needs to be re-vamped. Jesus Christ, middle-School was the biggest waste of three years imaginable... and to think our public school systems spend all these years, and still all creativity is hammered out of students.
 
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