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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The WP's latest:

"Two appointed officials working for D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) received preferential treatment from the former schools chancellor, who directly placed their children in schools and allowed them to bypass the notoriously stressful and competitive lottery system, according to an investigation by the District’s inspector general.

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) said he learned during a briefing from Inspector General Daniel W. Lucas on Tuesday that two of the three government officials aided by former Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson in the summer of 2015 were mayoral appointees. The third was a principal in the school system, Grosso said.

In addition, four other people also received improper school placements from Henderson, Grosso said: a former District elected official, the head of a nonprofit that works with the school district, a staffer in the Obama White House and a former classmate of Henderson."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/second-mayoral-appointee-implicated-in-school-lottery-scandal/2017/05/10/17e72092-35b2-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.3f38bcc6e769[/quote]

I don't care if none of this was technically illegal. It's all just cheap, lazy cronyism and a de facto disqualification for further public service work.[/quote]

And, based on the published prerequisites for the chancellor to be allowed to give special dispensation, I'm not sure this was entirely legal, either. I'm going to guess that further digging is going to uncover a slew of quid pro quos that is going to make this look even worse.[/quote]

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