Comments on: DOE contracting practices on the City Council hot seat right now http://gothamschools.org/2009/04/01/doe-contracting-practices-on-the-city-council-hot-seat-right-now/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Public Eyes on Public Schools » Blog Archive » Audit finds DOE routinely underestimates contract costs http://gothamschools.org/2009/04/01/doe-contracting-practices-on-the-city-council-hot-seat-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-98847 Public Eyes on Public Schools » Blog Archive » Audit finds DOE routinely underestimates contract costs Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:00:58 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=12221#comment-98847 [...] while disputing a city audit that found its contracting process “out of control” by allowing one in five contracts to [...] [...] while disputing a city audit that found its contracting process “out of control” by allowing one in five contracts to [...]

]]> By: Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Public Schools, Private Money http://gothamschools.org/2009/04/01/doe-contracting-practices-on-the-city-council-hot-seat-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-87160 Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Public Schools, Private Money Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:51:09 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=12221#comment-87160 [...] on how the department’s contracting procedures allegedly hurt small local businesses and an account of the range of issues in question.) Questions of financial rectitude aside, council members blame A&M for suggesting [...] [...] on how the department’s contracting procedures allegedly hurt small local businesses and an account of the range of issues in question.) Questions of financial rectitude aside, council members blame A&M for suggesting [...]

]]> By: Michael M. http://gothamschools.org/2009/04/01/doe-contracting-practices-on-the-city-council-hot-seat-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-86255 Michael M. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:52:51 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=12221#comment-86255 "$300 million" -- $300,000,000.00 -- in NO-BID CONTRACTS. Let's have some fun with math: Say it costs roughly $15k per year to educate a student. That's 20,000 students' worth, very roughly the number of students in a typical CEC's purview (one fiftieth of one million kids). Can you imagine the hue and cry if any local school board -- pre-mayoral control -- had forked out that much under similar circumstances? People would be screaming for... mayoral control. Ain't irony grand? Surely the Office of "Accountability", with its own $31M budget, might have something to say about that current $300M. (Not holding my breath.) “$300 million” — $300,000,000.00 — in NO-BID CONTRACTS.

Let’s have some fun with math: Say it costs roughly $15k per year to educate a student. That’s 20,000 students’ worth, very roughly the number of students in a typical CEC’s purview (one fiftieth of one million kids). Can you imagine the hue and cry if any local school board — pre-mayoral control — had forked out that much under similar circumstances? People would be screaming for… mayoral control. Ain’t irony grand?

Surely the Office of “Accountability”, with its own $31M budget, might have something to say about that current $300M. (Not holding my breath.)

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