 Other schools in Chicago enacted reforms at Clemente, which had reduced dropout rates by over 10%.Circa 1995, Chicago area local and Illinois state officials accused the school of using an Illinois aid program to send students to Puerto Rico to attend a radical political campus, fund flights for performers and speakers favoring Puerto Rico being politically independent from the United States, and to provide money for a pro-Puerto Rican independence fundraiser.In 1996, CPS launched an investigation into mismanagement of money.