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Scathing report blasts Archie, Evans on King charter deal

by Benjamin Herold on Sep 22 2011

Updated 4:10 pm

Former School Reform Commission Chairman Robert Archie has fired back with a statement"emphatically rejecting" Markman's findings.

Updated 2:26 pm

The mayor's chief integrity officer has come down hard on state Rep. Dwight Evans and recently-resigned School Reform Commission Chairman Robert Archie in a long awaited fact-finding report released Thursday afternoon.

The report, prepared by Joan Markman for Mayor Michael Nutter, concludes that Archie "facilitated" Evans's "intense lobbying effort to change the outcome of the [Renaissance] match process to secure for Foundations the SDP's contract to manage [Martin Luther King High School.]"

"Although he publicly recused from voting on that contracting decision, Archie facilitated Evans' s effort, both before and after the SRC vote on March 16, 2011,"