There Are So Many

scandals from this administration it is impossible to keep an accurate count of them all.

Don't forget to note the Reading First scandal. The program was one of those corporate handouts which came about as a result of the rotten No Child Left Behind law.

I am furious at Ted Kennedy and other Democrats who think this law is anything other than an attempt to destroy public education and hand it over to corporate (corrupt) interests.

Reading First, created by President Bush's signature No Child Left Behind law, offers intensive reading help for low-income children in the early grades. But investigators say that federal officials intervened to influence state and local decisions about what programs to use, a potential violation of the law. Some of the people who were influencing those decisions had a financial interest in the programs that were being pushed, officials said.

"I think we're very close to a criminal enterprise here," House Education and Labor Committee chairman George Miller (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said at an investigative hearing Friday. "Have you made any criminal referrals, Mr. Higgins?"

"We have made referrals to the Department of Justice," Higgins said.

Miller said his committee may also make criminal referrals. "I think when we put the evidence together we may join you in those criminal referrals," Miller told Higgins.