CHICAGO – An investigative report reveals a Rahm Emanuel appointee to the Chicago school board has seen business from the school system increase three-fold for the companies in which she has an interest.

The Sun-Times reports Chicago Board of Education member Deborah Quazzo has a stake in several companies doing business with the government school system.

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“From 2010 until her June 2013 appointment, the total payout to companies that Quazzo invested in has come to about $930,000, the records show,” according to the paper.

The board member’s companies have gotten an additional $2.9 million in Chicago Public Schools business in the year and a half since she was appointed by Emanuel.

She filled the seat vacated by Penny Pritzker, who was appointed commerce secretary by President Obama.

All told, the five companies in which Quazzo has an ownership stake have a total of $3.8 million in contracts with the school system, ranging from standardized test taking preparation to online help in math and reading.

“It’s my belief I need to invest in companies and philanthropic organizations who improve outcomes for children,” Quazzo says, according to the paper.

CPS spokesman Bill McCaffrey defends Quazzo’s connections, saying some of the contracts are with individual schools and not the district itself. That’s why she didn’t disclose some of the connections on ethics statements.

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“The requirements for these forms are laid out at a state level,” McCaffrey says, “and she has followed these requirements to the best of her knowledge.”

Anti-capitalist activists, most notably Chicago Teachers Union former president Karen Lewis, have attacked “rich white people” as the cause for the school district’s woes.

“When did all these venture capitalists become so interested in the lives of minority students in the first place? There’s sometime about these folks who love the kids but hate their parents … these folks who use little black and brown children as stage props at one press conference while announcing they want to fire, layoff, or lock up their parents at another press conference,” Lewis said to an audience at the City Club last year, according to Chicago magazine.

Unions and other leftists have a visceral hatred of the idea of making money while educating children.

That doesn’t seem to bother Quazzo.

“I don’t follow that stuff,” she says of her companies business dealings.

“All I care about is if a product is working well. If a product is making a difference for kids, that is a great thing. I have no idea where products are being used. That is not my job,” she tells the Sun-Times.