I found some priceless tidbits in the WSJ article, Detroit School Woes Deepen.
…[T]he state sent an emergency financial manager, Robert Bobb, to straighten out the city’s ailing school system. A probe launched by Mr. Bobb uncovered paychecks going to 257 “ghost” employees…
…Keith R. Johnson, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers… said there has been a “tendency to over-dramatize the level of corruption and the financial impact.”
Mr. Bobb… faced scrutiny himself this week when it came to light that he has awarded a no-bid contract worth nearly $1 million to a firm he used to work for… based in Philadelphia. A spokesman for Mr. Bobb didn’t return several calls…
Plagued by poor test scores and occasionally violence – including multiple shootings near the locations of the district’s… summer-school program this year…
…[T]he district only graduates around one in four students who enroll in ninth grade…
Okay, Dallas ISD, I challenge you to beat this level of corruption.
