“Mr. Hahs has a clear advantage over the (other) bid participants. Further, he had the ability to influence the district’s decision-making process by being allowed to interact with all decision makers on the prior project while other competitors were under a gag order.”
—Written statement from a company that competed for a $32 million contract to renovate Kansas City Schools. The contract was awarded to a company founded by a man who served as a consultant on the origional bid project in which all bids were rejected. The consultant/contractor was brought in as a non-paid advisor by Mike Rounds, then-chief operating officer for the school system who subsequently resigned and was recently hired by Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White as a deputy superintent at a salary of $170,000. White and Rounds were classmates in 2010 at the Broad Superintendent’s Academy.
Louisiana Voice 
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