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The chicago public schools, who this week made clear what her priorities were while running the country s third largest public school system. it s fair to say it wasn t her students. after being indicted open charges of corruption and fraud, bird bennett, who resigned earlier this year, pleaded guilty tuesday to one count of wire fraud for agreeing to get the school system to award her former employer $23 million worth of no bid contracts. in exchange, soups academy, the consulting firm bird bennett once worked for, would award her $2.3 million in kickbacks. after she left her post as ceo of the public school system. bird bennett who faces up to 7 1/2 years in prison, apologized to the students of chicago s public schools. i am terribly sorry. and i apologize to them. they deserved much more. much more than i gave to them. she also released a statement tuesday. saying there is nobody to blame
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