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Chicago maintains secret files on teachers

SPRINGFIELD -- Imagine a place where the identity of educators convicted of sexually abusing children or stealing from taxpayers is kept secret.

That place is Illinois, Chicago to be more precise.

For at least a decade, the Chicago Board of Education has maintained secret files on some of the criminals who have slipped into the school district's teaching ranks.

Portions of the secret files were released to Small Newspaper Group in October after a contentious open records battle that involved the Illinois Attorney General's Office pressuring the state's largest school system to release the documents to the newspaper group.

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Posted March 12, 2008.