Ah, those private companies sure know how to do it right, don’t they?
In New York City, the city’s biggest provider of tutoring services is under investigation for inflated bills and other little financial issues. Since 2006, the company has collected $87 million from the city.
The tutoring company was founded in 2005 by a 22-year-old college graduate. The firm has been investigated and sanctioned for previous financial misbehavior but the city Department of Education, controlled by Mayor Bloomberg, awarded it a new contract last November. The City Comptroller refuses to honor the contract.
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Diane- It is interesting to learn about the tutoring problem in NYC. I have always been interested in trying to find out who the major stock holders are in Sylvan Tutoring and in Huntington Tutoring which are located in the Buffalo area. At one time, I do believe that the Bush family was behind Sylvan—
Hmmm all of this and Pearson too????
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Thank you, City Comptroller.
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I actually conducted a 3-year study of private tutoring companies in NYC. Here is the link to my book, Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools, published in 2010 by the University of Chicago Press:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo8917055.html
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I think a lot of teachers would not mind $87/hour. That would make a great addition to your salary and you would have certificated people doing the instruction. Cops are allowed to do outside work why not teachers? Maybe, jail time is appropiate for these people including those who let and made sure that they got the contract. Maybe Bloomburg should go to jail with them as he seems to be the enabler and is at the top of the food chain.
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“Officials at Tweed initially sought a much larger three-year renewal contract for Champion last September, but they dropped that plan after the press began questioning the company’s track record.”
Here is an example of the press doing their job and a comptroller who took action. That is the only thing that will protect public funds from being plundered.
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Imagine what that money could have done for the schools.
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