From community and labor leaders, skepticism over BCG | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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From community and labor leaders, skepticism over BCG

by Benjamin Herold on Jun 06 2012

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• budget cuts
• contracting out
 
• District budget
• unions
 
• Thomas Knudsen
• School Reform Commission

By Benjamin Herold
for the Notebook and WHYY/NewsWorks

 

The School Reform Commission and private philanthropists may be offering considerable support to the Boston Consulting Group andvigorously defending their work.

But the District’s new management consultants have received a substantially cooler reaction from Philadelphia’s community and labor leaders.

“We at the NAACP despise the Boston Consulting Group,” said J. Whyatt Mondesire, the president of the venerable civil rights group’s Philadelphia chapter, during a protest rally before last week’s School Reform Commission vote on the District budget.

Mondesire was one of several speakers to blast BCG – and the unusual funding