…it probably is a duck. I don’t know how anyone – with a straight face – could not think this is not a conflict of interest:
Three of Norfolk’s school administrators also work as consultants for the Colorado-based Leadership and Learning Center, an education firm that has received contracts worth about $1.3 million from the division in the past 10 years.
There is something horribly wrong when people no longer recognize situations that carry the air of impropriety.
One of the requirements of my CPA license is an annual ethics course. I used to think that ethics was just something people knew, people understood. Given what I’ve observed of late, that is, unfortunately, not the case.
The whole lot of those mentioned in the article could certainly use a refresher.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
This is what is happening all over, and it’s sickening. The regulators don’t want to regulate, and everyone is in it for the $$$.
As someone said on Bill Moyer’s show a few weeks ago, “It’s like making the arsonist the fire chief.” And it just keeps happening, in so many sectors. Thanks for letting us know- I missed the paper today.
this doesn’t sound like it has the “air of impropriety” to me. This sounds criminal.
I was trying to be polite 😉