The Center for School Leadership Development is a conglomeration of North Carolina teacher academies. The IBD report characterized the relationship between Houston's and Daggett's firms as a partnership. Daggett's firm moderates discussion within the Kenan Best Practices Center, the Center's official web site. I don't care how good you are. When you are making three or four-hour presentations, you are going to raise questions.
Nobody has all the answers.
For his part, Houston said he did not know whether UNC used public money to bring Daggett to campus. Thomas Houlihan, a former education advisor to Gov. Jim Hunt, is listed as a senior consultant to Daggett's firm. Houston denied that the Center had a partnership with Daggett's firm. There is no contract with William Daggett. If we use him, if anybody uses him, it's on an individual contractual basis.