Illinois data on stimulus-related jobs saved, created don't add up

Chicago Tribune by Bob Secter, Erika Slife | Nov. 4, 2009 (News Report)

More than $4.7 million in federal stimulus aid so far has been funneled to schools in North Chicago, and state and federal officials say that money has saved the jobs of 473 teachers.

Problem is, the district employs only 290 teachers.

"That other number, I don't know where that came from," said Lauri Hakanen, superintendent of North Chicago Community Unit Schools District 187.

The Obama administration last week released the ... Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 3, 2009

Chicago’s omission from the stimulus data is not without irony. The federal overseer of school stimulus spending is U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who until early this year was the CEO of the Chicago schools.

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