the Timberjay pecks at JCI:
In doing so, it has become increasingly clear why JCI attempted to keep this documented from close scrutiny. In combination with other documents we have already obtained from the school district, the master spreadsheet provides clear and convincing evidence that projected savings were significantly exaggerated and that enrollment and revenue projections were far rosier than the projections JCI had developed for the district barely a year earlier. Despite reducing the number of schools from seven to four and a half, the spreadsheet appears to show savings in transportation, which certainly won’t be the case. The district will be adding bus routes as a result of the changes, and students will be transported significantly further in most cases. There’s no way you can wring savings from that.
In next week’s paper, I plan to outline the exaggerations in savings from staffing
