BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Members of the state’s top education board are questioning a quarter-million dollar consulting contract pushed by Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek.
Pastorek is contracting with a consulting firm from March until August to work on the state’s efforts to improve literacy and numeracy in schools around Louisiana. The contract is worth $250,000.
Three members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted against approving the contract, but the other eight members of the board supported it Thursday.
Pastorek says he’s hiring Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc. because it is a world-renowned consulting firm on literacy and numeracy in schools. Critics said the cost is too high.
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