Dept. of Education using illegal e-mails too

[donsu]

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/28382


CREW learns Dept. of Education staff are using private e-mails in violation of federal law


The use of private e-mails in the Bush administration isn't limited to White House staffers. CREW has learned that the Department of Education may not be able to provide complete information relating to its troubled "Reading First" program, because Department employees have been using non-governmental email accounts for official business.

So today, CREW asked the Department of Education Inspector General’s office to initiate an investigation into employees who – in violation of federal law and with the full knowledge of the Department’s Office of General Counsel – have been using non-governmental email accounts for official business. Our letter to the Inspector General can be found here.

On March 28, 2007, CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Education, seeking records related to the Reading First program. At a congressional hearing last month, the Chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), stated that the troubled "Reading First" program "sounds like a criminal enterprise to me." The Department of Education's Inspector General also revealed that he's made criminal referrals based on his investigations of "Reading First."

On May 9, 2007, CREW’s counsel, Dan Roth, had a telephone discussion with FOIA officers who told Mr. Roth that Department personnel “often use private email addresses,” and that the Department “wouldn’t have access to that.” Mr. Roth asked whether private email accounts were used for official business and was told that they were, adding that this issue has arisen in the past in reference to other FOIA requests.
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"sounds like a criminal enterprise to me."

there is going to be violence

[april]

1. well the Bush family is getting rich off off this as well Corruption in every branch of gov

IMPEACH

[waiting for hope]

2. Here's a great link....

BUSH'S FAMILY PROFITS FROM 'NO CHILD' ACT
READING FIRST AND VOYAGER EXPANDED LEARNING

Reading Recovery has a proven successful track record that the Bush connections refused to fund so their own son' Neil Bush's business Reading First would not have competition.

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/texasScam.asp

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Reading Recovery is an absolutely wonderful program

with a great track record - best record of any Reading intervention program EVER. And the kids who go through Reading Recovery tend to maintain their gains for many years, which is not typical of many intervention programs.

There are a few other reasons (besides political) it is not in every school in the USA:

1. It takes 2 years to train teachers to use this program.

2. Teachers work one on one with kids. This makes it more labor intensive and thus, more expensive. But it is still less expensive than Reading First.

3. Reading Recovery is an intervention program for only a few kids. The programs the US Dept of Ed eventually adopted are for ALL kids.

[malaise]

3. This is what I asked on another thread this morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=906613&mesg_id=906779
They have infiltrated every fugging institution.

[donsu]

4. true

nt