Prosecutors probe Reading First
A federal investigator looking into allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement in a $1 billion-a-year Education Department reading program said he has referred the matter to the Justice Department.
John Higgins, the Education Department’s inspector general, refused to specify for reporters what he has asked government prosecutors to look at, but investigators have been highly critical of the department’s management of the Reading First program.
Reading First, created by President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, offers intensive reading help for low-income children in the early grades.
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