Yeah, There's No Waste Or Fraud In Federal Spending

From the Buffalo News:  As a high-ranking Buffalo Public Schools administrator, Debbie Buckley oversaw more than $100 million of federal grants that were intended to help impoverished students in the nation’s third-poorest city. ¶ But in less than a year and a half, while Buckley ran the district’s grants department, she directed more than $330,000 of that anti-poverty money to benefit people and businesses close to her, including her son, her former stepsister and a floundering tutoring business that she had founded with her mother. And much of the money went for services that never were provided, investigators found. ¶ Although Buckley was fired seven months ago, the reasons why she was dismissed are coming to light only now because The Buffalo News fought for six months to obtain an investigator’s report that the district had marked confidential and refused to release. The district released the report only after The News filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court under the state’s Freedom of Information Law. ¶ The report and related documents provide a window into a school district administration that allowed a poorly trained individual to control huge sums of money with little scrutiny or supervision....
Buckley told investigators hired by the district that she did the best she could under challenging circumstances. She received no training as assistant superintendent, she said, and was overwhelmed by work that grew to include responsibilities for grants for the district’s persistently lowest-achieving schools.
On top of that, she said, she struggled with rheumatoid arthritis.
  http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130112/CITYANDREGION/130119666/1002
Just another reason to close the Department of Education- fraud and abuse of money with little oversight from the Feds.
Another reason why some public schools also need to close and start over with new staff and administrators.