You might notice that the person selected to help Michigan's failing schools was fired from her position as Superintendent of Seattle's public schools "after an audit revealed that $1.8 million in contracts with questionable or no public benefit passed through the district's regional small-business contracting program."
http://today.seattletimes.com/2011/11/maria-goodloe-johnson-hired-to-help-failing-schools-in-michigan/#.TzxnPV63Z7o.email
