BREAKING: Chicago Public Schools has infuriated parents after being caught spending MILLIONS on luxurious travel worldwide despite horrendous performance from students.
Principal-booked Vegas Suite
Hawaii “professional” trip
15 staff trips abroad
And yet: over 43% of teachers have been absent for 10+ days.
58% of students not proficient in reading, 73% in math.
Get your priorities straight, Chicago Democrats.
🚨 BREAKING: Chicago Public Schools has infuriated parents after being caught spending MILLIONS on luxurious travel worldwide despite horrendous performance from students.
Principal-booked Vegas Suite
Hawaii "professional" trip
15 staff trips abroadAnd yet: over 43% of… pic.twitter.com/plAifk3aZa
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 17, 2025
Higher property taxes
Tons of money to teachers unions
All for what? Self-serving people.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 17, 2025
It's time to pay the student and starve out the rotting system.
Let parents choose the best education they can get for the money.
Eliminate taxpayer waste and indoctrination at the same time. pic.twitter.com/ou15DR7PXE
— Kurt Schemers (@KurtSchemers) November 17, 2025
Overnight travel expenses within Chicago Public Schools have skyrocketed in recent years, an internal watchdog investigation found, as employees of the cash-strapped school district spent millions on overseas trips, spa getaways and flights to Las Vegas and Hawaii.
CPS Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht’s office on Wednesday published a new report on the district’s travel and overnight spending, which jumped from around $300,000 in fiscal year 2021 to nearly $8 million in 2024.
According to his report, some employees allegedly took advantage of the district’s “lax, vague, inadequate and unenforced” travel rules and procedures, leading to the “exorbitant” post-pandemic travel spending using taxpayer funds.