Emails: Ex-CPS CEO was outraged City Hall questioned no-bid deal

Late one evening in June 2013, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Chicago schools chief, sent an outraged email to the mayor’s top City Hall education aide. Angry at being questioned about the $20.5 million, no-bid contract she was about to hand to her former employers at the SUPES Academy, Byrd-Bennett wrote Emanuel aide Beth […]