Detroit Public Schools to Spend $40,000,000 on Consultants

Rebecca Kelley:

On Friday, Detroit Public School officials said Robert Bobb, 61, the DPS emergency financial manager plans to spend $40 million for consulting fees.

The fees will be spent in an ongoing effort to conduct internal financial audits to root out waste and corruption in Detroit Public Schools.

In March, Gov. Jennifer Granholm appointed Bobb to clean up the district's deficit estimated to be at $259 million.

However union leaders say they unhappy about the money that is going to spent on advisers since there has been approximately 2,500 layoffs since summer.

Bobb said finding costs savings is critical to improving the district's finances and said he doesn't want to lose one cent that should be given to classrooms.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 14, 2009 1:01 AM
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