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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

As far as I understand, yes. A key person retired from MCPS and took a job in the private sector, which is a pretty typical trajectory. This caused a delay either due to an abundance of caution or due to perceived malfeasance. Either way, the delay was the correct choice.

I want to be clear. I have no relationship with MCPS. I'm not an employee or a vendor. But I am a person who deals with procurements for a living, and I don't like seeing MCPS maligned for doing what I believe was the right thing. If there is even the perception of a conflict of interest, you should pull back and evaluate the bids anew.

As for who "won" the bid, anyone with ES-aged kids knows the answer. Rather than going with a single vendor for both math and ELA, MCPS "split" the tender and issued math to Eureka (with textboks, yay!) and ELA to Benchmark. That's not insider knowledge. It's been all over DCUM for months. [/quote]

The key clown is Erick Lang. Check out his linkedin where he touts implementing 2.0. Here is the discovery education team. https://www.discoveryeducation.com/company/curriculum-team/  . He is also adjunct faculty at AU. It would be fun to come up with the name of his class.[/quote]

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