A pair of consulting firms now auditing the finances and administration of the troubled D.C. Public Schools could be retained to implement the recommendations that emerge from their final reports, Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said this week.

“I think that it’s important when you have consultants come in that they not just make recommendations and those recommendations are put in a binder and stuffed on a shelf somewhere,” Rhee said Monday, “but that they’re actually realized and we receive some of the savings that they’ve identified. I think to the extent that we can work in partnership with them for a longer amount of time the likelihood of that happening would certainly go up.”