Some 100,000 freshly minted high-school diplomas are now as worthless as the name that's printed on them -- that of booted Chancellor Cathie Black.
It's the second time this school year the city Department of Education has had to switch the chancellor's name on the sheepskins.
In November, Chancellor Joel Klein quit. Thousands of diplomas emblazoned with his name had to be shredded.
When Black took over in January, the DOE's printer redid the press plates to etch in "Cathleen P. Black," and ran off 104,000 new diplomas, which now have to be tossed.
It's back to Tripi Engraving, the DOE's printer in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to order a new batch embossed with "Dennis M. Walcott" -- once he gets a waiver from the state to serve as chancellor.
Normally, the DOE prints an average 70,000 diplomas each year at 49 cents apiece. But the DOE has already hit a $100,000 spending cap on the printer's contract and has to put out a new bid, said spokeswoman Margie Feinberg.
The good news is, this money is going to an outside contractor, and the Mayor of Money LOVES giving city money to outside contractors as opposed to evil city workers with their evil city salaries and evil city benefits.
Diplomas many as worthless as the paper they are wasting taxpayer dollars on. The only name that should be on these worthless pieces of turd is king turd Michael R Bloomberg. He is the real fraudster who is now being undressed.
ReplyDeleteIn this greedy, "free market", and management loving system we all live in currently, you "can bet your bottom dollar" that there are kickbacks, or something closely akin to that,for every contract and every deal done since Bloomberg assumed his Royal Reign.
ReplyDeleteIt's OUR job to figure out how he does it, demand public accounting for everything, al la Mr. Liu, and try to get to the bottom of this. King Bloomberg, like Boss Tweed, has GOT to be making money from this. If not money, how about coflict of intrests? Who owns these companies? What are the conflicting connections?
This is why Princess Meryl Tisch should be IMMEDIATELY removed from her prominent NYS Regents leadership , since her brother in law is CEO for K-12, the largest online education services firm in the nation. Ergo, no articles on this at all in the mainstream press? Ergo, you have a fascist state of the State. Alarm bells should be sounding here !
Lord knows, the mainstream "Press" has been totally corrupted and bought off by this sociopathic, egomaniac King, otherwise known as Mayor of New York City.
Audits, subpoenas, handcuffs...
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