Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM

From: Lee Cary <lee.cary@att.net>

To: rhuberman@cps.k12.il.us
Cc: dporter@rmh.cci.org ,clara.carrier@us.mcd.com, josephine.fazio@us.mcd.com,
jsullivan@cps.k12.il.us, jennifer.smith@us.mcd.com

Mr. Ron Huberman

Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Public Schools
125 South Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Mr. Huberman,

I’m reporting a matter concerning the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Ronald McDonald House
Charities (RMHC), and the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF). I noted the past relationship between
CPS and RMHC in an article I wrote that is posted at
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the savealife foundation story.html

For school years 2004/05 and 2005/06, records indicate that CPS and RMHC engaged in a
matching grant program in which SALF was contracted to provide first aid training to CPS
students.

During school years 2004/05, SALF was contracted to train 7,500 CPS students. During 2005/06,
SALF was contracted to train an additional 10,000 CPS students. At a cost of $10 per student,
SALF was to be awarded $75,000 for school year 2004/05, and $100,000 for school year
2005/06. That’s a total of $175,000 to train 17,500 students over those two school years.

For the two-year program, your predecessor Arne Duncan personally signed off on three CPS
payments to SALF totaling $49,000. RMHC paid SALF the balance - presumably a total of
$126,000. ($175,000 minus $49,000 equals $126,000.)

In response to a federal subpoena and to public records requests, the Chicago Board of
Education’s legal department has produced records showing that from January 1, 2004 to
December 31, 2006, SALF, at best, provided training to less than 100 people - a number
considerably short of 17,500.

My question is this, sir: Do you think this matter should be investigated by CPS’s Office of the
Inspector General?

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your reply. I’m on deadline and would
appreciate a response within a week - that is by Monday, June 21. If you require more time to
respond, please so advise.

Lee Cary
Writer, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism
972-
Lee.cary@att.net

cc:

James M. Sullivan, Inspector General, CPS

Martin J. Coyne, Jr., President & CEO, RMHC
Josephine Fazio, Office of President & CEO, RMHC
Jennifer Smith, Media Relations, RMHC
Clara Carrier, Media Relations, RMHC

Sent via e-mail and faxed to 773-553-1501 (CPS, CEO) 773-534-9401 (CPS, OIG) and 630-623-
7488 (RMHC)
From: "Lee Cary" <lee.cary@att.net>
To: <lhernandez9@cps.k12.il.us>
Subject: CPS IG Query
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:45:29 -0500

Ms. Lydia Hernandez

Office of the Inspector General, CPS

Ms. Hernandez,
Thank you for speaking with me this morning. If you would, please advise me when you can as to
the disposition of the letter (copy attached as promised) sent to Ron Huberman as it moves
through the I.G. process.

Lee Cary, writer

Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website