Several weeks ago (given where the BCTF-Government are today, it feels like a lifetime ago), our blog posts around the Anjali Vyas report went viral within the B.C. education community. We had posted the results of two Freedom of Information requests looking at the $16,000 contract a high school grad received from the Ministry of Education to go to Finland and report on teacher training practices there.
Post 1 – Why did an 18-year-old get a sole-sourced MoE contract?
Post 2 – The Actual Vyas Report
Post 3 – Ministry Reviews and Tightens Vyas Loophole
Late last week, the results of another FOI came back. We asked for “all emails, documents, and other notes regarding the Anjali Vyas contracts, public criticism thereof and review released May 8, 2014 for the date range April 21, 2014 to May 8, 2014; All emails and letters to and from Anjali Vyas or her family and any member of the Ministry of staff for the date range September 1, 2013 to May 9, 2014.”
Here is , although a lot of it is redacted. Early on, it seems the communications folks were happy to park interview requests in Superintendent of Achievement Rick Davis’s lap. (Rick was the one who met Anjali at a wedding, “hit it off” with her, and navigated the sole-sourced $16,000 contract through the bureaucracy.
Rick then sends back a simple three-word email from his iPhone: “Good. Do nt (sic) respond.” Dang autocorrect.
A two-page project brief is also included – as is the contract, which we had already obtained.
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