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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear Discovery education could help with that...[/quote]
I’m honestly surprised that there wasn’t an investigation. Imagine short changing our kids for personal greed. [/quote]

Not familiar.  Backstory/details?[/quote]
The MCPS staff who contracted with Discovery and oversaw delivery of Curriculum 2.0 turned around and got jobs at Discovery. [b]There were some stories about how the RfP process was allegedly design to award Discovery. I don’t remember the whole story, but I think there was an attempt to solve source and a failed procurement that didn’t meet legal requirements so it had to be done over again. What was delivered was not even a complete curriculum but a hodgepodge of worksheets, generic instructions and corporate-speak concepts that students were supposed to learn. [/b]

I’m no expert, but from where I stand the situation resembled very closely an alleged fraud/kickback scheme. MCPS paid a ridiculous amount of money for a product that was substantially lower quality than just purchasing off the shelf text books, which is what they are doing now.[/quote]

Everything bolded is conjecture. What we actually know: senior MCPS staff hit pension age and went to the private sector. Because their engagement in the RFP had been so deep, the procurement was delayed by a year.

There's never been anything brought forward suggesting Discovery was poised to win, let alone what their bid looked like at that point. [/quote]
LOL. You call it conjecture and yet verify the basic facts. A key person in the procurement process left MCPS in the middle of it and went to work for Discovery. That caused a delay in the procurement process. These are all facts, correct?

Here’s a question for you, would this MCPS official who had a key role in the procurement process, what value do you think they would have for discovery once the RfP was issued?

And here’s a question I honestly don’t know the answer to but perhaps you can help, seeing that you seem to have an “insider view” of MCPS, who was the winning bidder?[/quote]

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