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Pittsburgh school district to review contracting, ethics policies after vendor took Hamlet, administrators to Cuba

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Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet at a May 22, 2019 school board meeting. (Photo by Terry Clark/PublicSource)

by Mary Niederberger, PublicSource
Now there are three official probes into the propriety of a vendor-paid trip to Cuba taken by Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet and four other administrators.On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution authorizing solicitor Ira Weiss to conduct a review of district policies relating to procurement, contracts, ethics and conflicts of interest.This review compounds another prompted by the district and one launched by the state auditor general.

The inquiries come in the wake of media reports about an April trip to Cuba on the tab of an educational technology company called Flying Classrooms.

Weiss hired former City of Pittsburgh solicitor Lourdes Sanchez-Ridge on May 17 to perform an independent investigation of the Cuba trip.

On Monday, DePasquale opened an investigation into travel and contract awards in the Pittsburgh district. DePasquale has asked the district for all travel documents for the past year and details on contracts awarded outside of the public bidding process.

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