Daily Kos: You're Doing a Heckuva Job, Maggie

by SusanG
Fri Jul 21, 2006 at 04:25:52 PM PDT

Margaret Spellings, head of the U.S. Department of Education, won't be getting a gold star anytime soon for doing her homework.

Showing up this past Tuesday to pitch a $100 million school voucher program to Congress that would allow students in underachieving public schools to transfer their bodies - and taxpayer-provided $4,000 per pupil - to private schools, Spellings admitted she hadn't read a report issued by her own department the previous Friday that found little difference between student performance in public versus private schools.

According to USA Today:

She also would not comment on the long-awaited public/private study, saying she hadn't read the report in full and only learned of its release by reading about it in newspapers Saturday. The department on Friday morning had sent the results to about 11,000 people who subscribe to an Internet e-mail list.