09.22.06
A Pattern?
Audit finds Education Dept. missteps
“Missteps” is a fairly generous summary of what amounts to gross corruption in the Education Department’s “Reading First” program. To wit:
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.
Blatant favoritism based on an equal mix of ideological fervor and straight corruption… now, what does that remind me of? Wait for it, wait for it… oh, right.