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Taxpayers pay $277,086 for school conference food, hotels and travel to Chicago | |
February 12, 2013 Come for the conference, stay for the hotel room, $57 steak dinner, valet parking and laundry service. Those are just some of the extra costs taxpayers in 89 suburban school districts covered for board members and administrators who attended a November conference in Chicago. The districts racked up $277,086.17 in hotel, food, travel and incidental costs over the weekend-long conference. Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702069587/ |