Chicago Public Schools said last week the School Board has settled its $1 million law suit against the publisher of a watchdog newspaper that published sections of the Chicago Academic Standards Examination (CASE) in 1999.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Bobrick dismissed the board's claim that George Schmidt's printing of test questions in the newspaper Substance was misappropriation of trade secrets, but he was ordered to pay the board $500 in damages.
Schmidt's wife Sharon Schmidt, a CPS teacher, said the suit cost the board more than $250,000 in investigative expenses and legal fees for outside lawyers. George Schmidt said in a statement that the suit was filed after …
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