The Philly School system has already paid out millions for it’s anti-white racism and still faces two more lawsuits pending. The latest lawsuit to be settled wa one involving Security and Data Technologies, Inc. (SDT). They were awarded 2.3 million in damages and compensatory damages. In 2010, they were awarded a contract to install security cameras in the 19 most dangerous schools in the system. They were summarily fired and replaced with a black owned firm that wasn’t even legally eligible to accept the contract. A corespondent in that case was then-Superintendent Arlene Ackerman.
As it became known, Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, became upset because the district was awarding contracts to white businesses, so she summarily fired SDT and gave the 7.5 million dollar no bid contract to IBS Communications, a company not eligible for no-bid contracts. Ackerman had told other Philadelphia School District administrators that she would make sure “all these white boys didn’t get contracts”, she fired SDT. She then gave the contract to a black firm illegally.
After it was revealed, due to an investigation by the Philadelphia Inquirer, that Ackerman had fired SDT for racist reasons, SDT sued and after five years they finally won the suit, receiving 2.1 million in actual damages and two hundred thousand in compensatory damages, to be paid by the PSD and the Ackerman estate. (She died in 2013)
“It’s been a long, hard journey. Justice was served,” SDT attorney Michael Homans told the Inquirer.
PSD says it is exploring a possible appeal.
The case isn’t the only one that stemmed from Ackerman’s actions. Francis Dougherty, a member of the city’s School Reform Committee, was fired after he leaked Ackerman’s deeds to the press. He sued, claiming his free speech and whistleblower rights were violated. His case was settled for $725,000 earlier this year. Two more lawsuits are still pending.