Chicago Public Schools’ cappuccino bill: $67,000

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.

Isn’t B.O.’s designee for the Sec’y of Education coming directly from running the Chicago schools? Don’t look for anything effective, or efficient to come out of D of Ed if this is a sample of his management expertise.