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Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 2 years, 8 months agohe Bush Administration has been using the Reading First program to reward political cronies and ideological allies, ignoring a legal mandate to make funding decisions that reflect "scientifically based research," according to federal investigators. These and other findings are detailed in a report by the Inspector General of the U.S. Depa
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Radiofreeeuropa
April 22, 2007, 4:28 a.m.So far Reading First has dumped almost $5 billion into these programs that have primarily benefited contributors, cronies, and insider hacks of the education industry complex.
The Reading First program has been used to direct federal grants, and mandated state and local dollars into the chain gang reading programs approved by "scientific reading" quack, Reid Lyon and Doug Carnine.
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yvonne8955
April 22, 2007, 7:17 a.m.Huh, did anyoone ever suggest impeachment to solve that fall of the Roman, I mean US, Empire? Darn, guess so, but falls of deaf ears.
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Amazing1
April 22, 2007, 7:52 a.m.According to my cousin who is on the school board in a small town in Maine, the whole thing is set up to skew statistics. On test days, children with learning disabilities are pressured to be absent so that their test scores will not lower the "progress" being shown.
Instead of "No Child Left Behind" we need a "Bush Left Behind" program. Instead of "Reading First" we need "Impeachment First."
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Macondo
April 22, 2007, 10:05 a.m.Good teachers are underpaid, many programs like music, art etc. are underfunded.
Monies diverted to the corrupted deals, cut down funding.
Many prospective excellent teachers have to go into other professions.
Meanwhile the corporations friendly to the administration, and or political machinery, of the president feast on
the booty.
Vultures perching on the shoulders of modern pirates !>/
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super-sunshine
April 22, 2007, 10:09 a.m.The sad thing about all this, is that they use a good cause to hide behind. Not to say that education companies shouldn't be making money, but it should go to the best not the friends of. Furthermore, there should be more money going directly to the people who are teaching our children. I think it say big things about Americans when our teachers are making less then some folks with little education. I was reading somewhere that a person that works at Cosco serving samples will make around $43000.00, plus great benefits and bonus after five years with the company. I know here in Texas it takes more then five years on average to ever get to the 40000.00 income on average for Teachers.
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miklkit
April 22, 2007, 10:50 a.m.I've heard reports about certain books being pushed onto school districts, but this shows the big picture.
Around here, in some cities the teachers income falls below the poverty level. And our governator has been campaigning to cut their income even more.
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lfergie812
April 22, 2007, 11:14 a.m.And the beat goes on. It seems like their is no place in our government that this corruption has not reached with their attitude of money first and the American people last. How many children are now going to leave school with an insufficient education?
Thanks Radiofreeeurope for sharing this with us.
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Xaos
April 22, 2007, 12:08 p.m.And I thought the last administration was bad. Where will this end? Our government has went from "We the people" to "We the corporations". Each successive administration is more and more wrought with corruption. Republican or democrat, it does not seem to matter any more. We need a big change, time to elect a third party to our important offices. Don't think it will work, it has in the past. We need reform, and a separation of business and state.
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quillyregnold
April 22, 2007, 12:08 p.m.Great Article Radiofreeeurope!!! Is anyone really suprised by what the Crooks do anymore?? It's so mind-boggling what these guys pull, it would be funny if it were not true.
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eugenegerard
April 22, 2007, 12:27 p.m.Bush's brother is one of the biggest perpetrators of this largesse. He owns a software company pushing programs for the no child left behind agenda.
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wildman6557
April 22, 2007, 12:30 p.m.Another scandal. Geez, Bush should start the scandal of the week club.
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OnlyTheTruth
April 22, 2007, 1:11 p.m.Is anyone surprised?
WORST PRESIDENT EVER
MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT EVER
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zaph22
April 22, 2007, 1:33 p.m.If a million was diverted, that is bad, if a crime was commttted, prosecute it! But my question is this, considering what appears to be poor quality of educaion in many of our schools, what happened to the rest of the five billion that wasn't diverted from it's intended purpose? Why does it seem to be having little to no effect on the quality of education?
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UBCONFUSE
April 22, 2007, 1:52 p.m.All politicians do this. It is called implementing your program. It only looks like something bad when the smear mongers of the Democratic left turn normal activities into criminal acts by alleging anything and everything about Republicans. This is nothing but spin, spin, spin. Same goes for the fired US Attorneys, it is all spin.
I wish Liberman would walk over to Reid's office and say, "either you retract your statement of America's defeat in Iraq or I will switch parties" Enough of this crap from the left
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Twistoflex
April 22, 2007, 2:31 p.m.As soon as I saw this story I knew that Dumbya's brother Neil was involved and that taxpayers' money would be diverted into the pockets of the Bush crime family.
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not2needy
April 22, 2007, 2:36 p.m.The Title of this article says it all. There is nothing done by this administration that doesn't render a payoff to them in some way.
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NelsonR
April 22, 2007, 2:55 p.m.The Justice Department is regulated by the power that is in office. So do you really expect any investigation into acts detrimental to America?
If you want to reduce corruption the Justice Department MUST be a separate entity from the powers who serve.
It is common sense to prevent the party in power the authority of investigations into political corruption. If you disagree then get a fox to keep guard over your chicken coop.
Four Branches of Government with oversight would lessen the present evil within our present Republic.
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not2needy
April 22, 2007, 3:26 p.m.LOL, KelLuv,
One would think they would tire of the daily scandal and just leave. But again the big bucks they are making makes it all worth while.
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skyking2p
April 22, 2007, 3:30 p.m.George knows how stupid he really is,so he has to make sure all those around him are loyal "bushies" so they won't make fun of him on TV. Take our country back. Impeachment now!!!
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simonsez
April 22, 2007, 3:32 p.m.The waste and politics in our government schools is way beyond Bush and will not be solved when Bush is gone. It has been there for 30 years and will be there well after the next election no matter who wins.
There is enough money to educate our kids if they use it to educate our kids! But they won't do that, will they!!
We waste billions and nothing changes. Bush tried to make them act responsibly, but they will not let that happen.
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quackpot
April 22, 2007, 5:26 p.m.Bush's Administration:
Excellent job Brownie
Rummie is THE MAN
I'll support Gonzo all the way
Wolfie, want a job at the World Bank?
Who was that guy at the U.N. for a while? - he was a real charmer.
The FDA - filled with this cr*p
The NCLB - filled with this cr*p
The Justice Department - filled with this cr*p
I'm surprised Bush hasn't found anybody for War Czar. Is this country running out of slime?
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MonkeyBiz
April 22, 2007, 5:55 p.m.I appears to me that there is such widespread corruption and outrageous behavior with this administration that the American public has become numbed by the sheer magnitude and audacity of it all.
One can only hope that some of these Dems that have recently been given some power will dig and expose until there is no choice left but to impeach and stop the immorality and illegalities of this, the worst presidency ever.
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miklkit
April 22, 2007, 6:27 p.m.Everything that I've learned in this thread begs the question: Are there enough Congressional Committees to actually dig into all of this corruption?
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, you find more neocon corruption. Where does it end?
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