School District of Philadelphia Consulting Contract

Here is some more info about the School District of Philadelphia’s $450k contract with a consultant hired to help with the new superintendent’s transition. As detailed in this Inquirer article, it was pretty controversial. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-superintendent-contract-joseph-associates-20220628.html

The most recent invoice includes some travel expenses which are itemized in detail. It also as a line item of $150,000 for a team of 12 consultants (not identified in the report or invoice) to write a report that was delivered on October 20, 2022.

The school district posted a 32-page “Transition Team Report” in October 2022:

https://www.philasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/100Day_TransitionReport_Final1.pdf

Here are some excerpts showing what $150,000 gets you:

And here are the full PDFs.

Joseph and Assoc - Inv Combined Redacted by megankshannon on Scribd

These are the invoices as of last October, when they had only billed about $16.5k.

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