It’s Good Work, if you can get it: How Paul Vallas “won” a $1 million contract - Wait, What?

It’s Good Work, if you can get it: How Paul Vallas “won” a $1 million contract - Wait, What?:

It’s Good Work, if you can get it: How Paul Vallas “won” a $1 million contract

by jonpelto

Who said competitive bidding doesn’t work

Pryor, Vallas, Adamowski and the other “education reformers’ appear to have a proclivity to by-pass the competitive bidding requirements or the need to get a group of the impacted people together to review alternative vendors and products.

And yet, when the need arises, that old adage kicks in – “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”

Take the following case study, for example.

When Gary Chico, the Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education finished the board meeting six weeks ago, The Vallas Group had “won” a million-dollar contract to come in and assist some of the failing school districts in northern Illinois.

Vallas beat out four other companies in a competitive bid process that saw the large and