Hundreds of education advocates rallied in New York City on Wednesday to oppose a $120 million contract between Verizon and New York City Public Schools. Patrick Sullivan is a member of the Panel for Education Policy who voted against the contract.

Patrick Sullivan: “I think we have concerns about Verizon’s conduct under the previous contract and as special commission of investigations pointed out we still have funds that need to be returned to the department from Verizon
The second reason is that I’m not sure that Verizon — given the strike conditions can actually fulfill its its services a lot of what we have in the school system is the older landlines we have copper … I don’t know that the people they are bringing in on a temporary basis can maintain these lines.”