DISQUS

Roget · 3 years ago

"Diastrous"? Rich, did you switch to decaf or something this morning?

The Wyma things, the Lon Monk's Sister/Ginormous contract thing, these should all me in Topinka's spots. But there are so many examples to choose from, there must be a backlog.

Marie · 3 years ago

Politics aside for a moment, this is all kind of disgusting. This could lead one to believe that the whole standardized testing process is more about making hay (political and otherwise) than about what they tell parents it's for.

Mrs. Crabapple · 3 years ago

Education, like transportation, because of size, the large pool of funds, and the heavy bureaucratic layers to hide in, is a massive target for people to perpetrate scams of all types. The Harcourt/Wyma thing stands out because of the scale.

You can likely find similar shady deals in the areas of textbooks and food service contracts, I'll warrant. Like this "price break" on connecting schools the the Century Network. Is that a real price break or were they just overcharging from the start?