CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new report from the Office of the Inspector General in Chicago points to what she calls "questionable, excessive" spending on overnight trips for Chicago Public Schools employees.

This includes staff excursions to places like Egypt, Finland and South Africa.

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On Wednesday, the oversight body watchdog urged CPS to reform its travel policies, after the OIG found CPS travel expenditures surged to $7.7 million last year.

That's more than double what the district spent five years prior, before the pandemic.

The report states CPS staffers repeatedly exceeded spending limits, and expensed trips and activities without approval.

That included a professional development conference in Las Vegas that more than 600 employe

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