2. Oh, no. Some people actually profited financially from Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. It is apparent that students did not profit. Since schools did not get they financial support they needed, it is no surprise that some well-place people did get federal dollars for their special texts and materials.
Washington Post:
The Justice Department is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, another blow to a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
The disclosure came as a congressional hearing revealed how people implementing the $1 billion-a-year Reading First program made at least $1 million off textbooks and tests toward which the federal government steered states....
I bet you also didn't know that the President's brother, Neil Bush, is also making big bucks from the program.
...A 5th grader at Rosa Parks Elementary school in Berkeley, California last year, Vanessa is part of a grand experiment pushed by the federal Department of Education to re-make government-funded public schools. Educational corporations, from European-based multinationals, to start-ups such as Ignite, founded by Neil Bush, the president's brother, are swarming into the schools, offering prepackaged curriculum, tests and educational materials to meet the legislative mandate to "teach to the test'" in a narrow range of subjects.....
Isn't it amazing that the crooks are even robbing federal dollars from children?
