Security and Data Technologies, Inc. (SDT) was initially chosen by Philadelphia School District (PSD) and then-Superintendent Arlene Ackerman back in 2010 to install surveillance cameras at 19 schools PSD classified as particularly dangerous. After the company began preliminary work, it was abruptly “deselected” and the $7.5 million no-bid contract was then awarded on an emergency basis to IBS Communications, a company not eligible for no-bid contracts.
The abrupt turn of events, it turns out, had a racial motivation. An investigation by The Philadelphia Inquirer discovered Ackerman became fed up that the district kept giving contracts to white-owned companies. PSD is owned by two white men.
So, after telling other PSD administrators she would make sure “all these white boys didn’t get contracts,” Ackerman canceled SDT’s contract and diverted it over to IBS, which had black ownership.
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8 comments:
But Ackerman doesn't pay out a nickel, it's the tax payers stupid.
And we pay for the investigation and trial and the cronies who gave her the job will just transfer her to some other powerful position.
She couldn't wait until the next contract came around? Another high end race baiter at work. And she's not held fiscally responsible, so her pension is safe.
She should be fired for using racial discrimination in her job. Immediately, and not rehired in her State Government.
She is dead dummy
She died in 2013! Read the article!!!!
OMG did no one read the whole article but me?????
Did any of you even read the article? The woman is DEAD!!
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