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Betsy Combier

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Email: betsy.combier@gmail.com

 
The E-Accountability Foundation announces the

'A for Accountability' Award

to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.

Winners of the "A":

Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
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Sprint Signs A No-Bid Contract With the City, Joining Snapple

CITY SPRINTS TO AWARD $2.5M PACT
By CARL CAMPANILE (NY POST, May 10, 2004)

The Department of Education has signed a no-bid $2.5 million contract with Sprint Corp. to provide long-distance phone services - declining to entertain proposals from other companies in one of the nation's most competitive industries, The Post has learned.

The sole-source contract for long-distance calls has raised eyebrows from critics who complain the number of no-bid deals has increased dramatically under the administration of Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

But Klein spokeswoman Margie Feinberg defended the Sprint deal, which is actually a renewal of a prior no-bid contract awarded to the firm, as a bargain.

Under the agreement, Sprint agreed to cut the cost of service by 27 percent from the prior contract. The extension runs from July 1 of this year through June 30, 2006.

And she said the department is working on a proposal to put long-distance service out to bid down the road.

"If we didn't extend the contract there would have been a massive disruption in long-distance service," Feinberg said.

Verizon, another phone-service provider that has other contracts with the department, declined to take issue with the Sprint deal.

 
© 2003 The E-Accountability Foundation