Daily News | Philly’s superintendent defends $450,000 consulting contract, saying the work ‘requires intentional and strategic actions’
at a news conference Wednesday, “it’s a big amount of money for the taxpayer, but it is not extraordinarily out of the norm for the kind of work that we need to do here in the School District of Philadelphia.”
But Watlington said he was brought to Philadelphia to make the school system “one of the fastest-improving urban districts in the country,” and to do that “requires intentional and strategic actions.” Watlington has taken heat over not just the contract’s cost but the consulting firm itself. Shawn Joseph, the owner of Joseph & Associates, is a former Nashville superintendent who left before he had completed three years of work in that district. A former Nashville board member wrote the Philadelphia school board to warn against Joseph, saying of his tenure that she “never before or after experienced such corruption and dysfunction.
Watlington said he knew both Joseph and Morgan, whom he said have “done some pretty significant work in school districts and in the national space in public education.” He knows Joseph through the Howard University Urban Superintendents Academy and through Joseph’s former work as a national Wallace Foundation consultant, “although I never paid him to be a consultant.”
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