Reading First scandal just keeps on getting worse.
Posted by: preaprez on: 16 May, 2007
Randy BestI just keep wondering when will be the First Indictments for Reading First? Are there date certains, time-lines or just bench marks?
It just keeps getting more sordid.
ABC reports the riches to riches story of Randy Best. Randy was a Bush “pioneer.” That means he donated more than $100K to the Bush campaign.
In return what did Randy get?
After receiving the Reading First contracts, Best was able to sell his company, Voyager Expanded Learning, for $360 million. According to his critics, the company was valued at only $5 million a few years earlier, a figure Best disputes.
“Their friends and cronies, and they ended up not designing the best program for America’s schoolchildren,” said Congressman George Miller, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.
In a congressional report the inspector general for the Department of Education found gross and repeated examples of conflict of interest in the Reading First program.
Edward Kame’enui, was receiving consultant fees from Best’s company and also received $400,000 in royalties from publisher Scott Foresman, which produced reading programs.
A spokesmen for Margaret Spellings, head of the DOE, was quoted by ABC as saying that the department was, “committed to results.”
I wonder if that’s true about the Department of Justice?
1 Response to "Reading First scandal just keeps on getting worse."
1 | Fordham’s lies about Reading First. Perhaps they thought we forgot. « PREA Prez
[...] we forgot. 07Jan08 It was way back in Spring and Summer that the Reading First scandal broke. And so perhaps the great right-wing minds at the Fordham Foundation thought we had forgotten what [...]
Recent Comments