A Real Civics Education Lesson?
USA Today reports that an audit of a “non-profit group that gets millions of dollars a year from Congress to help teach students about government misspent or failed to justify more than $5.9 million last year." The newspaper reported:
“The audit examined the center's operation of programs that provide textbooks and materials for civics classes in U.S. schools and to develop international civics education courses. The center spent $23 million in federal grants during the year covered by the audit, from August 2007 to July 2008.
“This year's education spending bills pending in the House of Representatives and Senate would provide more than $25 million to the center, although President Obama's 2010 budget calls for eliminating the programs in favor of competitive grants.
“The inspector general's report says the center couldn't properly account for $3.2 million in employee salaries. The report says the center's monthly time sheets were unreliable because most of the employees interviewed said they estimated the time spent on each project rather than log what they worked.”
Some civics education lessons some California students are getting. Sheesh!
I hope your Thanksgiving holiday is enjoyable. Growling will resume in a few days.