FORT LAUDERDALE — One week after a blistering internal audit exposed serious flaws in Broward County Public Schools’ latest construction procurement, district leadership returned to the School Board Tuesday asking for a do-over— a move critics say comes only after Superintendent Howard Hepburn and Chief Operations Officer Wanda Paul drove the process into a dead end of their own making.
Superintendent Hepburn announced plans to ask the Board to reject all bids submitted under RFQ 26-059, the very solicitation his administration rushed forward despite repeated warnings from Board members and internal legal counsel.
The decision effectively concedes what the audit made clear: the procurement process was fundamentally broken from the start…