Cost doesn't spell success for Colorado schools using consultants to improve achievement

...These schools are sharing $5 billion in federal tax dollars in a massive, three-year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.
A Denver Post investigation found one clear winner so far: consultants.
In Colorado — one of the few states willing to tally such spending — consultants are taking home 35 percent, or $9.4 million, of the $26.6 million that came to the state from the U.S. Department of Education in the past two years....

Read more:Cost doesn't spell success for Colorado schools using consultants to improve achievement - The Denver Posthttp://www.denverpost.com/investigations/ci_19997418#ixzz1nDuY11Qi

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Weast Watch: 7 days in October 2008

October 2008 was a typically busy time around MCPS. The news media was covering the issue of illegal curricular fees being charged in schools, local school audits were being released with surprising revelations, and HSA's were threatening to keep students from graduating.  The MCPS Capital and Operating Budgets for FY10 were being prepared.

Where was our Superintendent during 7 days of the busy first semester of the 2008-09 school year?

The dates these pictures were taken were from October 11th through October 15th.  Superintendent Weast missed a Board of Education meeting on October 14th.