Disgraced ex-schools CEO Byrd-Bennett steered $10M more to 'friends' than previously known: CPS inspector general
In 2013, Byrd-Bennett helped steer an eye-catching $20 million contract for principal training to a company that had employed her before she worked at CPS and which promised to take her back after she left the Chicago school system. That same year, CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher now says, Byrd-Bennett also made sure that two more friends landed $6.3 million in a separate training contract with professional development firm Knowledge Delivery System, a company she had ties with in Detroit. After a year of work at KDS, the two unnamed friends left the company in a tiff to start their own f...
Source: suntimes.com