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School milk supplier trims costs, keeps lucrative deal

May 22, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times
BY CHRIS FUSCO, TIM NOVAK AND ROSALIND ROSSI 

 
Chicago school officials said Monday they’ll save $750,000 after negotia

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Rahm ethics push

April 2, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times

by MITCH DUDEK
Staff Reporter

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging the city’s sister agencies to adapt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to employees receiving gifts from outside vendors.

Emanuel sent letters to heads of the Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Park District asking each to enact the policy.

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Employee gift ban recommendation still has few takers

March 25, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Despite new CPS scandal, governments reluctant to establish
zero-tolerance policy

By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter

Concerned over a rash of ethics violations by city employees in 2010,
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson urged Mayor Richard M. Daley to
implement a citywide ban on gifts from businesses who contract with
the government.

The city's Board of Ethics quickly rejected the idea, saying that
while a zero-tolerance gift ban might make sense for some departments,

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Chicago school officials got $86,000 in gifts, report says

March 16, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Joel Hood 

The chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools and two members of her staff have received tens of thousands of dollars in improper gifts from the d

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CPS worker ethics probed District food vendor allegedly gave gifts worth thousands of dollars to high-ranking employee

March 12, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Joel Hood
 
The inspector general for Chicago Public Schools is investigating allegations that the district's largest food vendor

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Mayor skirts sticky patronage questions

January 31, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Inspector general to investigate whether CPS funds paid protesters

By Kristen Mack, Chicago Tribune reporter

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday declined to say whether it's appropriate for faith-based groups that have become vocal public supporters of his controversial education agenda to receive millions of dollars in contracts from his administration.

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Duncan had list of favor-seekers

March 23, 2010

BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter
When U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan ran Chicago Public Schools, his office quietly kept a log of elected officials and others seeking to help kids win admission to the most coveted schools in the system, a former top Duncan aide said Monday.

That list has now come under the scrutiny of both federal officials and the schools inspector general as part of a probe of whether clout played a role in admissions to Chicago's elite schools, sources said.

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