Politics – he 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
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.
Maybe we are saving up for something better? Like criminal charges:) with time in the Slammer, with some good old fashion Bush hospitality.....;) I would settle for that.
Impeachment? Not until those hard core, deluded Senate and House Republicans are convinced by middle America that their continued blind support of this corrupt president will find them without a government job after the next election. Middle America needs a guaranteed 60 votes to overcome the Bush veto and pursue viable impeachment! Oh, and add Joe Lieberman to this list of fools!
Not until those hard core, deluded Senate and House Republicans are convinced by middle America that their continued blind support of this corrupt president will find them without a government job after the next election. Middle America needs a guaranteed 60 votes to overcome the Bush veto and pursue viable impeachment! Oh, and add Joe Lieberman to this list of fools!>>>>
Maybe instead of writing lawmakers, people should be writing the editors of the newspapers in those 'red' states, telling those fools who elected them to wake the hell up, or we're sending them the bill!
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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."
There are also states (Fla was one when Jeb was Gov) that teach entirely from the tests. Totally illegal.
A retired teacher friend of mine that taught in the Jeff. Co. Ky. school system told me that Ky. does the same thing. Reason being that if they, the schools, do not 'achieve' certain scores then funding (state and govt(?)) will be cut and schools can be 'taken over' by the State. ( I assume that in Ky, if a school is 'taken over' by the state, then the school district does not receive funding and or certain administrator's will be in some serious hot water.)
Also mentioned was that 'certain students' where encouraged to stay home during testing to help 'prop up' the over-all scores.
Illegal or not,from what I've been told, education is 'about the money' and not actual educational progress.
That is what it has become, sadly. That seems to be what every trade and profession has become - there is little pride in the product/results any more, just greed for more money and competition to grab as much of it as possible.
Teachers, counselors, doctors, nurses, lawyers, jewelers, plumbers, craftsmen, even artists to a large extent - every da#@d trade and profession is all about the money.
There are still a few in each trade or profession who are trying to maintain quality while still earning a living, but they are fewer every year.
icono1:
I live in Jeff. Co. Ky. and although i am not a part of the school system here, my sister teaches in Cumberland Co Ky and she told me they aren't allowed to teach that way, it was against the law. I wouldn't disagree with you though, it seems to have become the norm all over the country now.
In Texas, the number of students classified as learning disabled has risen dramatically in order to keep them from taking the tests and dropping the overall school averages.
The stakes are so high that teachers and schools have little choice but to teach to the tests.
Educational policy should be left to professional educators, not professional politicians and ideologues.
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 !>/
All teachers are underpaid while the funds are diverted by the Unions leaders to other projects, not to coorporations.
Much of it diverted to Democrat campaigns.
Good Lord, what an idiotic statement.
Oh wait, i see! The repubs are saying, lets take all this tax money and put it into a no child left behind program, then we will divert it to Democrat campaigns!! You must be a complete box of rocks!
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.
Libs must really like living in the state that gave us Dubya. Let's see, Texas threw out Dubya's faith based initiatives when they found out that abuse in the church day cares was ten times the norm. Dubya has only taken his corruption and ignorance of good science to the national level to the greater demise of all America.
There is still an element in Texas politics that push the same "God, guns, and big bidness" policies. The latest outrage is making its way through the legislative process that will REQUIRE (yep, thats require as in MANDATORY) all Texas public high schools to offer bible study classes. It actually stands a pretty fair chance of passage, after all, no one in Texas politics wants to be seen as anti-religious, and most citizens just roll their eyes and say "Oh, them 'ol boys there in Austin! Ain't they a hoot?!?"
Edinbug----""ah, yet another completely classless comment by a completely classless a5shole. But what else could you expect from a moron like yourself. You should try taking up the reading program. You illiterates need it.""
I get crap from SuckaLib too. He's/She's good for a laugh. Despite the fact that he/she is uninformed or misinformed, that doesn't keep him/her from turning up the volume full blast. If the postings were more accurate, they'd be annoying. As it is, they have high comedic value.:-)
Libssuck,
You don't know it all. Teachers here in Ky must go back to school and get a masters degree within 5 years of their first teaching job, then advance toward a PhD after that. Do you think that college is free? Apparently you do if you think 40,000 a year is a lot of money to live on and go to college too.
Maybe you should try going to college in these days, see for yourself the expense of an education.
Libssuck - Are you seriously suggesting that Texas teachers have it made financially? With killer benefits? They are only paid better on average than teachers in Mississippi. Regular pay increases? Where does that take place? Not in my local school district.
They work long hours and some work holidays doing paperwork for both TAKS and NCLB. Most buy their own classroom supplies and all have to continue their education without assistance from their employers.
Teaching is one of the most important jobs necessary for the future of our nation, yet teachers in my town earn less than the garbage collectors. And I have never heard of a teacher that could afford to NOT take a job over the summer in order to make ends meet.
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.
You are not very well informed. Here in Chicago, the poverty level for assistance from the government for a single person is $39,000 per year. Many teachers, especially new teachers make much less than this.
You are so blinded by your political attachment to this administration that you cannot see the forest for the trees.
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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.
Another article of interest:
http://www.elladvocates.org/media/NCLB/T1O25aug...
The worst president ever, but also the most corrupted one!
the whole administration needs to be cleaned up.. what a disgrace they are..
Miller asked the Justice Department to initiate a criminal investigation.>>>>
That's the first problem. Only the Justice Dept. can deal with this. And as it was brought out in 2005, & the 'injustice' dept. did nothing, I think it's clear that they will do nothing, or make motions that get nowhere.
Margaret Spelling, The Secretary of Education, said she will look into "individual mistakes", but says this all happened before her watch. She was given the job in 2004, & I guess didn't hear in 2005 & 2006 that there was something wrong. She's a good little CON. Suuure. She'll look into it.
Gonzo's Justice Department also stonewalled every reported case of contractor fraud aand abuse from Iraq and Afghanistan too! What can you expect from a guy who defines torture as only that which kills (no complainers then), and allows hearsay and no habeas corpus for the possibly innocent at Gitmo?
Dubya also paid $425,000 of our taxpayer monies to the pundit Williams to sell No Child Left Behind too! Impeach now!
There is still time to impeach. Don't forget why the power of impeachment was given us in the Constitution. And remember that the Constitution is not a 'g.d. piece of paper' but the document that guides government and officials.
NEVER, EVER FORGET WHAT george w bush HAS COST YOU & YOURS
NEVER FORGET PRE-bush AMERICA
Demand impeachment!
Referring to the Justice Department, I still fail to see why that Department cannot and should be separate from the whims of our politicals parties. Most will agree that corruption in government is a norm but I hear many excuses from bloggers why this is a bad idea. I cannot understand why keeping the Fox out of the chicken coop is detrimental to our government.
If you give the power of investigations to the political party in power, power corrupts.
I still fail to see why that Department cannot and should be separate from the whims of our politicals parties>>>>>
I think 'serving at the pleasure of the president' is misinterpreted to mean 'do his bidding.' That's certainly not true in the context of whether or not they will pursue known lawbreaking. We obviously need independent investigations of these things. I say give the top law schools the information, and give the students something real to bite their teeth on. Law students are the one's who've gone after the system to clear people wrongfully accused. They're obviously less likely to have political ties that would cause them to 'overlook' facts.
In case you have not noticed, republicans just hate aemrica for its freedom. and the best way to enslave people is to reduce thier education. Mission accomplished. In the 1960s when i went to public school we had around 24 students to a class room now its closer to 40...gee i wonder why public education is having problems? could it be the defunding that started with reagan? Nahhhhhhhh must be something else lol
Reagan vetoed the truth in Telecommunications Act too! Heaven forbid news organizations be required to present both sides of an argument and take more air time to do so. This veto unleashed the likes of Faux Fox Facts, part of the long term corrupt Republican plan to control? Just shows the continuos corruption from Nixon's Watergate and Reagan's Iran Contra to the present, of the Republican Party!