Chicago Public Schools let eight staff sexually target students on one campus, and colleagues who heard about it never told the district, its inspector general found
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The Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General's Fiscal Year 2025 annual report, released January 7, 2026, found that eight staff members at two high schools on a shared Chicago campus engaged in sexual misconduct toward students or targeted former students for sex, mostly in the 2010s and peaking in 2015-2016, which the OIG called a systemic problem in an environment where staff routinely crossed boundaries with students. The OIG found staff who learned of allegations failed to report them to CPS as district policy requires, one administrator dissuaded a student from pursuing a complaint, and earlier student complaints were never documented; a mid-2010s CPS Law Department investigation did not substantiate one student's complaint that the OIG later corroborated. An administrator who resigned during the probe was hired by another Illinois district after falsely stating on a Faith's Law disclosure that he was not under investigation. Overall the OIG's Sexual Allegations Unit closed 335 cases in FY2025 and issued 55 reports substantiating misconduct.
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