INVESTIGATION OF ‘NO CHILD’ READING PROGRAM
This is just one more example of the corruption behind No CHILD LEFT BEHIND that has elected officials like Kathy Cox reporting to lobbyist instead of the best interest of our children! Do you think we should re-authorize No Child Left Behind? How big of an issue will this be in 08?
FOXNEWS-WASHINGTON — A federal investigator looking into allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement in a $1 billion-a-year Education Department reading program said Friday he has made criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
John Higgins, the Education Department’s inspector general, refused to specify for reporters what he has asked government prosecutors to look at, but investigators have been highly critical of the department’s management of the Reading First program.
Criminal referrals are made by investigators when they encounter evidence of possible federal crimes, which only the Justice Department has authority to prosecute.
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.
A big no! We need local control of schools!
Kathy Cox must go!
I am a math teacher in the Cobb school district for over 20 years. We all know that this one size fit all education system is failing.
I know Kathy, and it hurts me to admit that she is caught up in the political system, and has lost sight of why we became teachers.
And let’s not forget English classes. I’m not talking about English vs. Spanish. I’m talking about the fact that perhaps we have millions of kids (Americans) in middle school and beyond, who won’t ever watch the news or documentaries because frankly they can’t understand all the big words!!!
(And spelling class too) Without a decent vocabulary they won’t get very far in school or in life!!
Bill
What do you think about Kathy Cox?
I don’t know much about her. I’m simply providing views from somebody who went to Georgia public schools the whole time.
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[...] The truth is No Child Left Behind has driven up the cost of education while filling the pockets of publishing companies who have bought off politicians. Is this not more proof that Hillary is in the back pockets of lobbyists first while Americans are left behind? Yahoo-Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday,President Bush has cut education funding so much that some schools are cutting programs such as art, music and dance. [...]