The chairman of the House education committee asked the White House yesterday to turn over all its communications about the scandal-tarred student loan program and also Reading First, the administrations $1-billion-a-year reading initiative, which has been besieged by accusations of conflict of interest. The request by the lawmaker, Representative George Miller, Democrat of California, carries his inquiries into education policy-making beyond the Education Department itself and into the Bush White House. Read more of this article from The New York Times.
Posted by Steve Groft on 03 May 2007 in Headlines , Issues in the News , Policy