The Rich Get Rich and The Kids Get Shafted
May 10th, 2007 at 9:06 am by Susie
This isn’t new, but it’s still infuriating. There are huge sums siphoned out of schools with this kind of crap:
A scathing report issued today documents “substantial financial ties” between key advisors of Reading First, a controversial federal reading grant program, and publishers who benefited from the program.
The report, issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, called the findings “troublesome because they diminish the integrity of the Reading First program.” [...]
The Kennedy report centers on four directors of the Reading First Technical Assistance Centers, who, the report says, were highly influential in advising states on which reading programs to adopt in order to qualify for federal funds.
According to the report, the directors had “extensive ties with education publishers” at the same time they were responsible for evaluating other publishers’ programs. The report concluded that such ties may have “improperly influenced actions.”
No Crook Left Behind.
Is this administration more corrupt than US Grant’s?