Board failed diligence on Say Yes problems

Winston McGregor, executive director, Guilford Education Alliance, and Alan Duncan, then chair of Guilford County’s Board of Education, both served on the operating committee of Say Yes to Education’s Say Yes Guilford.

During their tenure, the public was misled concerning Say Yes’s scholarship sustainability by more than $400 million, easily comprehended with no more than multiplication and division, which they either didn’t figure out or ignored altogether until it was too late.

McGregor has been appointed to the school board to run for Duncan’s seat while working at the Education Alliance, which is serving as the interim fiscal administrative agent for Say Yes Guilford, all at the same time.

Alan Duncan is on the “new” Say Yes Guilford local governing board, after the school board and McGregor enabled it to be compromised by misleading the public.

McGregor now has oversight of an organization she runs as a school board member, which is handling Say Yes finances. It seems as though our local news industry doesn’t hold those in power accountable.

The school board didn’t do its homework, betrayed Guilford County families, and left those who enabled it in charge of what’s left of Say Yes Guilford.

George Hartzman

Greensboro

August 29, 2018