Although the total magnitude of the consulting contract
with Mass Insight hasn't been reported, that initial six figure payment is chump change compared to the amount of
taxpayer money that is being spent on the salaries and benefits of the consultants and education reformers who have been
hired to surround Pryor at the Department of Education.
For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if
taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (
hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers
with computers, replacing public schools
with privately run charter schools, etc.).