Reply #17: There are threads they avoid, like this one...

[JackRiddler]

Too damned embarrassing. No excuse for this situation. They'll just hope this thread drops if they don't enter debate and thus kick it.

SO KEEP KICKING IT PEOPLE.

If you know the details of what many of these "consultants" do, it's far worse than you imagine. They'll take fees for many years without providing any discernible service. This is crony capitalism. This is plunder at the top to justify class war on the bottom.

This is why Bloomberg picked a beancounting hitwoman with no education experience from his business circle to run the department: to protect against the exposure of what is essentially "graft" in the form of contracts. It was beautiful how spectacularly that backfired, and maybe the fall of Cathie Black combined with this latest controversy can be the beginning of unraveling the real story of Bloomberg's mayoral dictatorship over the NYC school system and the War on Teachers nationwide.