“Because the facilities master plan was in a period of decision-making, and thus not finalized, FEMA delayed payments.”
–State Superintendent of Education John White, explaining how the Recovery School District (RSD) in New Orleans ran up a debt of $7.8 million to a private contractor, $6.6 million of which was delinquent, for the transportation of RSD students in post-Katrina New Orleans. White did not explain why the facilities master plan remained in a period of “decision-making” six years after Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana Voice 
Sure!
Inability to make timely decisions (some 7 years it seems) would seem to undermine the idea that John White is much of a leader. Sounds like he may have been largely a ‘hmmm/haaaa-er’.