The NYT

editorializes about the Reading First scandal.

It shouldn't surprise anybody. Anything that was proposed by the Republicans, whether in Congress or in the White House, was surely designed to be a handout to corrupt interests.

You know, the free market knows best, even if often doesn't.

Thanks

to some recent scandals, the Department of Education is coming into some oversight, and what is now known isn't pretty.

Here's More

about the Reading First scandal.

NCLB is such a scandal. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

As the World Turns.

It seems that Wolfie is in trouble.
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The Reading First scandal gets referred to the Justice Department.
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George Tenet's new book will doubtless hit the bestseller list.
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Chicago axes around 775 probationary teachers for alleged "performance" reasons.
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Robber barons join forces in their effort to destroy public education.
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There's no sparing The Spare.
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Does Anybody Out There Really Think

there wouldn't be a corruption scandal in connection with No Child Left Behind?

It is nothing more than a handout to corporate interests. Children, teachers, and improving education in general have nothing to do with it.

Here is more

about the Reading First scandal.

"That sounds like a criminal enterprise to me," said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House education committee, which held a five-hour investigative hearing. "You don't get to override the law," he angrily told a panel of Reading First officials. "But the fact of the matter is that you did."

Ya think so, George? The goddamned LAW is the problem here; it is nothing but a corporate handout at the expense of education and children.

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.

The Plot Gets Thicker

over the scandal of the Reading First program:

Federal advisors mismanaged President Bush's $1 billion-a-year reading program and profited from close ties to the Bush administration, according to testimony released Thursday — in one case repeatedly rejecting one state's funding proposal until state officials dumped a successful reading test and bought one written by a top Bush advisor.

Is there conflict of interest here?

As the World Turns.

The Reading First scandal goes to Congress.

But of course there is NOTHING wrong with NCLB, which is a handout to unscrupulous outfits.
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Former California congressman Pete McCloskey has ditched the Republican Party for good and has registered as a Democrat.
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Well, no kidding.
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