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🔥 Chicago Public Schools Blew $23.6 MILLION on Luxury Trips — While Students Fall BehindChicago Public Schools just got hit with a brutal watchdog report — and taxpayers have every right to be furious.Over the past six years, CPS employees racked up $23.6 million in travel expenses at 5-star hotels, international trips, luxury resorts, and Vegas conferences — many never approved and some blatantly abused.We’re talking:• $945-a-night Vegas hotel rooms• “Professional development” trips doubled as South African safaris, hot-air balloon rides, and camel tours• $4,700 Hawaiian vacations labeled as seminars• Round-trip flights costing over $1,000• A principal bringing their spouse to celebrate their anniversary — on taxpayers’ dime• Over 600 employees flocking to Vegas for seminars but skipping the exact same one when it was offered in ChicagoAll while:📉 Only 2 in 5 CPS students read at grade level📉 Only 1 in 4 meet math proficiency📉 Teacher absenteeism stays sky-highThe spending exploded when federal pandemic funds arrived — money meant to help kids recover from massive learning loss. Instead, it helped fund luxury trips.CPS finally announced a travel freeze in October