CPS Happenings

- Barbara Byrd Bennett was given a 4 1/2 year prison term for steering $23 million in no bid contracts to the
consultants who previously employed her. She was suppose to receive kickbacks but those never came to be.

- Others involved in the no bid contract scandal also will serve time. Thomas Vranas will serve 18 months and
Gary Solomon will serve seven years.

- A Cook County judge rejected a lawsuit filed by CPS against the Illinois State Board of Education that claimed
CPS is receiving funds from the state in an unequal manner.

- Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed that "The kids of the city of Chicago will be in school until the end of the year because
that's where they belong."

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