Apparently, without board approval, the board or Superintendent has hired Burges and Burges out of Cleveland- to do a survey of the perception of the district. This expenditure was NEVER listed for approval on any board agenda. The survey started today. They are…
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How many PR agency owners do you know?
The real question should be is how many PR agency owners does Dayton Public Schools Superintendent Kurt Stanic know? And by the same measure is ignorance of both the law and the fine art of PR an excuse for committing a sin? Sole-source contracts, unbid contracts,…
And the survey asked…
Well, Dayton Public Schools didn’t hire Burges and Burges directly, they hired the Montgomery County Educational Service Center to do their public perception survey for them. Naughty naughty. This is how you skirt scrutiny and keep things underwraps- and avoid…
Why Dayton needs to vote no on Issue 6 part 2
The first thing you should always do when looking over something “too good to be true” is to follow the money. I failed to do that in the last post about this sneaky way to funnel public money into private hands without real governmental oversight,…
Revisionist newspaper websites
The Dayton Daily News has been inconsistent about allowing comments on articles. There doesn’t seem to be rhyme or reason to which articles allow comments, which ones don’t- and on more than a few occasions- they’ve blown the comments away and closed…
Dayton Public Schools to hire Cleveland firm on a no-bid for PR
Sources have provided me with a copy of the agreement between Burges & Burges, a PR firm in Cleveland, and the Dayton Public Schools for a no-bid contract for $6,000 a month for 18 months. I’ve attached the agreement for all to read.burges-contract Being in…
When it comes to giveaways, Dayton Daily cares more about spaghetti than your tax dollars
The Dayton Daily “news” wasn’t at the Dayton Public Schools school board meeting yesterday when they voted to give an open ended $108,000 PR contract to the Cleveland political consulting group, Burges & Burges. However, the Dayton Daily was at a…
United Way the Dayton Way
The last thing you do when you want to build trust is start meeting behind closed doors. At least that’s the way true leadership works in this information-driven economy. The Dayton United Way got in trouble by letting an incompetent executive pay himself way…
Bad PR is worse due to bad advice.
Wednesday morning, a straight F student (#FAIL #1) brings a gun to Thurgood Marshall High School. Somehow, he gets it past security (#FAIL #2), and is in school for less than ten minutes before they come and arrest him (#WIN #1- but, who’s counting). No one from…
Note to Mark Owens: time to take down your immature smear site
Montgomery County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Owens, will of course blame Rhine McLin for failing to beat Gary Leitzell with at least 10 times the money and a marquee name. Rhine McLin should be wanting her campaign manager’s rear end in a sling. Her campaign…
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