Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Fired First Student Regains Contract Through Laidlaw Aquisition

The Columbus City School District fired First Student last year for failing to run background checks on it's drivers, a violation of contract and state law. They instead hired Laidlaw Education Services. Yes, clearly the best alternative to keeping a bad company is hiring a company that bad company is about to buy. However, being smart, they put a few tricks in the contract to keep the newly-merged First Student from changing the Laidlaw managers.

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