I think what bothers me most about the no-bid contract that Dayton Public Schools awarded to an out-of-town “PR Firm” is the stories that aren’t being told. It’s not just the PR firm that’s failed- it’s the leadership of the system...
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Dayton Public Schools and the state report card
If I ran a dating site and described each member by height, weight, and eye color and nothing else, how many people do you think would be happy about their dates? The state report card has become the metric for measuring schools of late- leaving out all the nuances...
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...
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...
Now political consultants are on the taxpayers’ payroll?
It’s one thing for a political campaign to hire a campaign consultant, but it’s another for taxpayer money to be used to pass a tax increase. Think about it- would you pay someone your own money, to make you pay more for something? If the politicians...
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...
Dayton Daily News asks “Why does DPS need PR advice? “
I’m now the über blogger of Dayton. Scott Elliot, who is now on the editorial board, but used to be on the schools beat– asks if DPS needs PR help on his blog: Dayton uber-blogger David Esrati has been railing lately about Dayton Public Schools decision to hire...
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...
Please define the word “public” – DPS spends 20 minutes to decide on 5.
Up on the sixth floor of the DPS palace (that was purchased with little citizen input) is a small conference room where the School Board met today. Bottles of water, notepads and folders were set in place. The board filed in, quite informally, and found their places...
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,...
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