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January 30, 2018

How KIPP San Antonio Got a Handle on Procurement

How KIPP San Antonio Got a Handle on Procurement   Charter school network CFO tells a still-unfolding story of the fits, starts, frustrations and triumphs that have accompanied implementation of the organization’s new purchasing policy   Bringing a coherent, transparent procurement policy to an organization that has long lacked...

By David Port
December 8, 2017

How Uplift Education of Texas Is Raising Its Procurement Game

It's been a busy year-and-half for Stephen Parmer, who, since taking over as head of procurement for Uplift Education, the largest charter school network in North Texas, in early 2016, has been hard at work centralizing what had been a relatively loose and largely departmentalized...

By David Port