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Ex-Chicago Public Schools leader charged with corruption

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2012 file photo, Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett speaks at a news conference, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel, background, listens in Chicago. The former CEO has been indicted on corruption charges following a federal investigation into a $20 million no-bid contract. Bennett was indicted Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, nearly four months after she resigned amid an investigation into the contract between the district and SUPES Academy, a training academy where she once worked as a consultant. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)CHICAGO (AP) — The former CEO of Chicago Public Schools plans to plead guilty to corruption charges announced Thursday that allege she helped steer more than $23 million worth of no-bid contracts to education companies in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

The Latest: Chicago Public Schools mum on indictment

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 01:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2012 file photo, Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett speaks at a news conference in Chicago. The former CEO has been indicted on corruption charges following a federal investigation into a $20 million no-bid contract. Bennett was indicted Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, nearly four months after she resigned amid an investigation into the contract between the district and SUPES Academy, a training academy where she once worked as a consultant. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the indictment of former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, following a federal investigation into a $20 million no-bid contract (all times local):

Hybrid online/on-campus master's degree promises to 'democratize' MIT

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 01:34 PM PDT

Beginning in February, top students who take a semester of online Supply Chain Management (SCM) courses will be invited to apply for a second semester on-campus, earning a master's degree. In what's being called "inverted admission," the plan gives students a chance to test out what MIT has to offer before committing their time and money to a degree – and vice versa.

Puerto Rico to restructure Education Department amid crisis

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 01:11 PM PDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico says it will transfer more than 600 employees from the island's Department of Education to other divisions and agencies in a push to reorganize the government amid an economic crisis.

Former head of Chicago schools will plead guilty in bribery scheme: lawyer

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 01:06 PM PDT

The former chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, plans to plead guilty to charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks for helping her former employers win lucrative contracts, her lawyer said on Thursday. Byrd-Bennett, 66, resigned in June amid a federal probe into the $20.5 million no-bid contract the cash-strapped district had awarded to her previous employer, educational consulting firm SUPES Academy. The district for the country's third-largest city has had five chief executives in four years and is making drastic spending cuts this year as it faces a potential $1.1 billion deficit.

AP NewsAlert

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:59 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutor: Ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO plans to plead guilty in public corruption case.

Ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett indicted on federal corruption charges

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 10:23 AM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett indicted on federal corruption charges.

Pennsylvania college rescinds degree awarded to Bill Cosby

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 09:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby performs at the Stand Up for Heroes event at Madison Square Garden in New York. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, refused to dismiss a woman's lawsuit against Cosby alleging he abused her at the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15-years-old. Cosby's attorneys argued that the case should be dismissed because a former attorney for Judy Huth filed the lawsuit in December 2014 and included Cosby's name, despite rules that the comedian shouldn't have been identified by name in the case. (John Minchillo/Invision/AP, File)WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A university in northeastern Pennsylvania has become the latest school to rescind an honorary degree it granted Bill Cosby.

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