GAO: Reading program improperly managed

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Education Department officials and their contractors appear to have improperly backed certain types of instruction in administering a $1 billion-a-year reading program, congressional investigators found.

The Government Accountability Office report supports assertions by the inspector general of the Education Department, who has released several reports in recent months into the Reading First program.

The program is a key part of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law. It offers intensive reading help for low-income and struggling schools.

The GAO, Congress' investigative and auditing arm, surveyed states to get their views on the program.

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The dept of ed had a training session for school administrators where they taught them how to apply for grants to buy the materials for this reading program. The people doing the training were sales reps for the publishing company that sold the program.

So a textbook publisher was paid with your tax dollars to teach school officials how to apply for federal money (more of your tax dollars) to buy the textbook company's products.

How this is what is best for kids is a question these folks can't answer.

has gotten a bad rating from auditors or reviewers or regulators. I guess the US deserves it for allowing a C student to steal the presidency.

That's the important thing