The Cincinnati NAACP will attend the Cincinnati Public School Board Meeting tonight Monday, May 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Education Center located at 2651 Burnet Avenue.  All contractors, Cincinnati NAACP Executive Committee Members and Cincinnati NAACP Members are encouraged to attend.  "The Cincinnati School Board must be held accountable tonight for a series of broken promises,"  President of the Cincinnati NAACP Christopher Smitherman says.  

May 10, 2010

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Cincinnati NAACP

The Cincinnati NAACP will attend the Cincinnati Public School Board Meeting tonight Monday, May 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Education Center located at 2651 Burnet Avenue.  All contractors, Cincinnati NAACP Executive Committee Members and Cincinnati NAACP Members are encouraged to attend.  "The Cincinnati School Board must be held accountable tonight for a series of broken promises,"  President of the Cincinnati NAACP Christopher Smitherman says.  

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President Dock Foster goes to trial on May 26, 2010 at 9:00 am in Judge Fanon Rucker's courtroom.  CPS and Turner are charging President Dock Foster with Criminal Trespassing.  CPS recently sent a letter to Attorney Chris Finney in response to a public information request:  

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"Recently, an audit was conducted of the more than $707 million in capital contributions conducted by Cincinnati Public Schools.  Based upon that audit, it was identified that roughly $68 million of that work was performed by minority-owned contractors.  The documents we are seeking are those that summarize, categorize, calculate, or estimate the portion of that $68 million in minority contractor work that was performed by African-American--owned companies."

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"In regards to your April 19 open-records requests for documents related to a recent CPS review, or "audit," that summarize, categorize, calculate, or estimate the portion of that $68 million in minority contractor work that was performed by African-American owned companies, we found no responsive public records."   

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The Cincinnati School Board does not want to release in writing that African American contractors got 1% of $700 million.  CPS can not pass a school levy without the African American Community.  The Cincinnati NAACP will vote in May to extend opposition to any school levy to the year 2012.  "The School Board is so disrespectful that they refuse to pass a strategic plan and hire a monitor that would increase the probability that African American contractors would get work building Cincinnati Public Schools," Smitherman says.