A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
The government audit is unsparing in its view that the Reading First program has been beset by conflicts of interest and willful mismanagement. It suggests the department broke the law by trying to dictate which curriculum schools must use.
The ranking Democrat on the House education committee was furious.
"They should fire everyone who was involved in this," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. "This was not an accident, this was not an oversight. This was an intentional effort to corrupt the process."
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Bush reading program gets failing grade for corruption and cronyism
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I've been reading about the review this particular educational program has received, and I can't say that I'm surprised by the results. It seems that federally funded educational programs always fall short, and are marred by corruption and cronyism. Nothing new there...
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