consultants

final four

Colorado

January 26, 2019

Adams 14 community selects four applicants as finalists for managing the district

The Adams 14 school board will make a final decision Feb. 12.

preemptive strike

Colorado

January 24, 2019

Aurora is proposing to hire an external manager for two struggling schools

Aurora Public Schools would be the first in Colorado to take advantage of a new state law allowing schools and districts to request accountability hearings early.

let the competition begin

Colorado

January 18, 2019

Here are the nine applicants vying to manage the troubled Adams 14 school district

After a community vetting process, the Adams 14 school board is scheduled to vote on an external manager Feb. 12.

Plus

Colorado

August 29, 2018

Aurora school introduces out-of-the-box redesign with more electives, more teacher collaboration

The Aurora district has worked with School by Design to try to raise school achievement without increasing spending.

New York

June 10, 2013

DOE secretly enlisted Parthenon to devise plan to save networks

Intent on preserving the Bloomberg administration's education legacy, the Department of Education has hired a favored consulting firm to craft a plan that would safeguard a signature policy. The city has hired the Parthenon Group to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the system through which principals choose support organizations to provide professional development, curriculum, and budgeting help. The consulting firm, which has previously studied school closures and small schools for the department, is charged with crafting a strategic vision to ensure that Children First Networks are preserved when another mayor takes over next year. “While there is no set of actions that can perfectly ensure ‘sustainability’ of the network model, the goal of the project will be to identify a series of steps that can bolster the odds of sustaining those elements the DOE views as most essential,” the firm wrote in its bid for the project. The confidential bid was submitted in April and obtained by GothamSchools.

New York

December 11, 2012

Another inquiry finds that DOE's IBM consultants stole from city

The Department of Education is under pressure to tighten its supervision of outside workers after another investigation found that consultants from IBM stole from the city while assigned to a technology project at the department. Three IBM contractors working in one part of the department's instructional technology division conducted personal business from the office, illicitly worked from home, and even stole and sold department equipment on eBay, according to a report released today by Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon. Department officials who were supposed to be monitoring the contractors did not do their job, investigators concluded. "The Chancellor must insist upon direct supervision of outside consultants by DOE employees," Condon writes in the report. "Allowing outside consultants to usurp the supervisory role of DOE employees is an open invitation to defraud the DOE." In a twist, Condon's report notes that two of the department supervisors who "turned a blind eye" to the fraud, Joseph Iacoviello and Stephen Vigilante, had previously uncovered and reported fraud by a different IBM contractor. That contractor, Willard Lanham, was sentenced this fall to three years in prison for stealing nearly $2 million from the city.

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