Vicki did what all aspiring civic servants do...feather their nest. I think she was 50/50 in job performance. Her blunders were even with some good, tough decisions. Politics in public schools is always the large factor, Portland can never have great schools under this environment.

 

Melanie Quinn is not the only person who had serious problems with the University of Oregon and Reading First conflicts of interest. Kudos to Melanie Quinn for having the courage to point this out.

From "Scholars Deny Conflicts of Interest in Their Work With Reading First Program"

"The federal Reading First program's early work involved such severe conflicts of interest that it was "cooked from the very beginning" and seemed "close to a criminal enterprise," the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' education committee said during a hearing in April.

The chairman, Rep. George Miller, directed most of his ire at the program's former director, Christopher J. Doherty. But Mr. Miller and other members of the committee also intensely questioned three psychologists who are or have been affiliated with the University of Oregon about their roles in Reading First, a $1-billion-a- year component of the No Child Left Behind Act that provides grants to improve reading instruction at low-income schools in kindergarten through the third grade."

For full article go to:

http://chronicle. com/weekly/ v53/i35/35a02601 .htm

 

Hooray -- full-size graphics! Thank you!

 

Vicki Phillips had the same modus operandi in Lancaster. She sucked the School District of Lancaster dry getting big bucks for Marilyn Crawford and Lee Kappes and Cathy Feldman plus many many others.

Count your blessings that she is gone.

 

Drop out? She was offered the a once in a lifetime opportunity--who wouldn't take it?

And why should she have stayed. She didn't get any love here. PPS needed someone to shake things up, PPS got that someone, and everyone hated her for it. Sounds like a job well done to me.