Lawsuit Claims Henderson Covered Up for a Substandard Food Contractor

[Anonymous]

Why did DCPS pay for spoiled cafeteria food and the Chancellor was aware of it? This and many other serious charges are made in a recent lawsuit by the former Head of Food Services. The Washington Post article raises some serious questions that Chancellor Henderson needs to answer. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/lawsuit-alleges-problems-with-dc-schools-food-vendor/2014/04/30/9e2bb696-d09c-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html?hpid=z2

[Anonymous]

Let's hope this is another piece in the puzzle that sends Henderson packing.

[Anonymous]

I love Kaya, but she's going to lose this one!

[Anonymous]

She is leaving anyway. I heard it from a friend of someone who is pretty close to her.

[Anonymous]

Make that "former friend"!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is leaving anyway. I heard it from a friend of someone who is pretty close to her.

No shit. She floated the fatuous idea that NYC was interested in her and has been more or less disengaged for most of the past year. The degree to which she was unemgaged evident in her appearance in front of Catania last year was appalling. Gray's loss was the nail in the coffin.

[Anonymous]

The Inspector General and States Attorney are investigating this. Is it possible that someone received kickbacks for awarding and re-awarding this contract to an obviously incompetent contractor? It is said that Henderson aggressively defended Chartwells.

[Anonymous]

DC doesn't have a "States Attorney."

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-cafeteria-supplier-is-warned-of-losing-contract/2012/01/25/gIQARJfgRQ_story.html

[Anonymous]

Correction: Attorney General

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did DCPS pay for spoiled cafeteria food and the Chancellor was aware of it? This and many other serious charges are made in a recent lawsuit by the former Head of Food Services. The Washington Post article raises some serious questions that Chancellor Henderson needs to answer. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/lawsuit-alleges-problems-with-dc-schools-food-vendor/2014/04/30/9e2bb696-d09c-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html?hpid=z2

I'm not a kaya fan but I don't think she'd stoop this low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Inspector General and States Attorney are investigating this. Is it possible that someone received kickbacks for awarding and re-awarding this contract to an obviously incompetent contractor? It is said that Henderson aggressively defended Chartwells.

Possible? Um, let me think....Abso-fucking-lutely!!

[Anonymous]

I sure Kaya appreciates Chartwells' efforts to thwart unionization of workers.

[Anonymous]

This Chicago Tribune excerpt describes a part of what Chartwells did in the Chicago Public Schools:

"The chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools and two members of her staff have received gifts worth thousands of dollars from the district's two largest food vendors since 2007, a serious violation of the district's ethics code, according to an investigation by CPS Inspector General James Sullivan.

The Tribune reported earlier this week that the inspector general was investigating whether a high-ranking CPS employee received a vendor's skybox tickets to a Green Bay Packers home game in both 2008 and 2009, including one for the night Packers legend Brett Favre returned as a member of the rival Minnesota Vikings."

We know that the person in charge of Food Services in DC attempted to end the DCPS association with Chartwells but was fired by Henderson because of his vocal dissatisfaction with Chartwells. Is it therefore possible that someone else in DCPS received a kickback for her/his support of the Chartwells contract?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is leaving anyway. I heard it from a friend of someone who is pretty close to her.

No shit. She floated the fatuous idea that NYC was interested in her and has been more or less disengaged for most of the past year. The degree to which she was unemgaged evident in her appearance in front of Catania last year was appalling. Gray's loss was the nail in the coffin.

I'm not at all surprised she's leaving (either being fired or delicately "resigning"). I am completely surprised that anybody wants her.

What does she have on her resume? That's positive?