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John Chase
@chasejohn
Director of Investigations for @BetterGov. Alum @chicagotribune investigative reporter. Co-author of Golden, the full story of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Dec 14, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Quick 🧵about today's @BetterGov/@chalkbeatCHI story. Oldest journalism cliche in the book: Follow the money. When IL was getting billions for the pandemic, the BGA set out to...follow the money. And we teamed up with ChkBt on school spending stories. bettergov.org/news/chicago-s… 1/ We started months ago. We looked at the biggest school districts in Illinois and found that schools were spending millions on technology even before federal COVID-19 rescue checks arrived. AND that despite the push some students still lacked devices. 2/ bettergov.org/news/even-befo…