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Audit: Bush reading program beset by favoritism, mismanagement
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 22, 2006 02:37pm |
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| Category | Report |
| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Friday, September 22, 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
The government audit is unsparing in its review of how Reading First, a billion-dollar program each year, that it says has been beset by conflicts of interest and willful mismanagement. It suggests the department broke the law by trying to dictate which curriculum schools must use.
It also depicts a program in which review panels were stacked with people who shared the director's views and in which only favored publishers of reading curricula could get money.
In one e-mail, the director told a staff member to come down hard on a company he didn't support, according to the report released Friday by the department's inspector general.
"They are trying to crash our party and we need to beat the (expletive deleted) out of them in front of all the other would-be party crashers who are standing on the front lawn waiting to see how we welcome these dirtbags," the Reading First director wrote, according to the report. |
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