Bad Segregation vs. Okay Segregation
by jonpelto
Remember when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out so eloquently against the scourge of “BAD” segregation, while clearly delineating the line between “BAD” segregation and OKAY segregation?
You know, it was back on June 23, 1963, in the Great March on Detroit…
King was speaking to a crowd of more than 25,000 people at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
King explained that unlike OKAY segregation, BAD “Segregation is a cancer in the body politic, which must be removed before our democratic health can be realized.” He said that BAD “Segregation is wrong because it is nothing but a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.” And King added that BAD “Segregation is wrong because it is a system of adultery perpetuated by an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.”
Okay, so maybe King didn’t differentiate between BAD segregation and OKAY
Vallas’ “No Bid” contracts continue to haunt Bridgeport School System
Vallas’ “No Bid” contracts continue to haunt Bridgeport School System
by jonpelto
When Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s $229,000, interim superintendent of schools, arrived here in Connecticut and almost immediately signed more than a dozen “no-bid” contracts, most of them used to hire consultants he knew personally, including a number who were part of his private consulting firm, The Vallas Group, the prognosis wasn’t good.
As we learned, it was classic Vallas. Even a quick search found articles like the one printed in the Times-Picayune of New Orleans on March 25, 2008, in which a reporter noted that when Vallas arrived there, “The vast majority of the RSD’s (New Orleans Recovery School District) contracts were not competitively bid.”
Vallas’ no-bid contracts in Bridgeport total more than $12 million and considering most violate Connecticut and Bridgeport bidding laws and requirements, the lack of response o
