Report: Des Plaines charter school firm under investigation
Posted December 16, 2015 12:00 am
A Des Plaines-based charter school firm that operates four taxpayer-funded schools in Chicago is suspected of defrauding the government by funneling more than $5 million in federal grants to insiders and "away from the charter schools," according to court records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
No criminal charges have been filed in the ongoing investigation of Des Plaines-based Concept Schools.
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