Under interim Chicago Public Schools CEO Jesse Ruiz, CPS is pushing behind the scenes for the scandal-plagued United Neighborhood Organization to have a continued role in running the 16-school charter network it created.
Last year, the UNO Charter School Network — which has about 8,000 students across the city and gets more than $80 million a year in taxpayer funding — announced plans to cut ties at the end of this school year with the Hispanic community organization it’s been paying to manage the schools.
But since Ruiz took the reins at CPS in April, the district has sought to block the charter board’s plans to run its schools on its own instead of paying millions of dollars a year in management fees to UNO, according to documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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CPS - Chicago Public Schools pushing for UNO (A noted corrupt Hispanic organization) to keep role in charter schools
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