Why isn't our children learning?*
posted by The Vidiot @ 1:46 PM Permalink Well, this might explain it:Bush reading program blasted in internal auditGee, and I wonder why they released it in the Friday Night News Dump.
A $1 billion reading program that is a key part of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind education law was mismanaged and rife with conflicts of interest, according to an internal audit released on Friday.
The audit by the inspector general's office of the Reading First program -- the largest early reading program in U.S. history -- found that officials in 2002 and 2003, shortly after the program was established, improperly tried to influence states on which curricula they should use.Gee, she sees 'individual mistakes' and I see a pattern of corruption by political cronies and hacks that has permeated this misAdministration from day one. DoD, DoJ, NOAA, EPA, FEMA, CIA, FBI. In summation, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, has been replaced by M I C K E Y M O U S E.
In addition, some officials with the power to approve certain reading materials for states had connections with the publishers, according to the report. It added the department had not properly reviewed the officials for such potential conflicts.
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"Some of the actions taken by Department officials and described in the Inspector General's report reflect individual mistakes," Spellings said in a statement.
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It actually goes beyond that. What the kids are forced to read is usually such crap. It's stuff they can't possibly relate to on any level and therefore, they become disinterested and stop reading.
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