Of Reading, Politics and....er... “Dirtbags”
On Friday the Department of Education’s Inspector General released a blistering internal review revealing that those running President Bush’s billion bucks-a-year Reading First program broke the law, fostered and/or blatantly ignored conflicts of interest, and unethically dictated what curricula schools could and couldn’t use.
In one colorful e-mail, according to the report, the program’s director told staff to slam a company he didn't support. "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 program director wrote, reports BEN FELLER for the Associated Press.