Barbara Byrd-Bennett pled guilty to steering $23 million in no-bid city contracts in October 2015. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Friday for plotting to collect kickback returns from no-bid city contracts that were worth millions, reports the Chicago Tribune. […]
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The former leader of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Barbara Byrd Bennett, will be sentenced on Friday for crimes committed while she was CEO of Chicago Schools. Her sentencing memorandum shows she admitted what she did and apologized. But details of what she did paint a grim picture of her corruption. That story […]
Chicago Public Schools Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett has resigned from office amid a federal investigation into a $20.5 million no-bid contract to one of her former employers, according to The Chicago Tribune. Byrd-Bennett, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, announced the leave via a statement on Friday; it went into effect Monday. She did not […]
Chicago Public Schools Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett has resigned from office amid a federal investigation into a $20.5 million no-bid contract to one of her former…