Post: Justice Department investigating key component of No Child Left Behind

When even Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt comes out against it, you know the time has come for the elimination, or at least a major overhaul of the No Child Left Behind program.
The program, which many state officials, educators, and taxpayers see as an unworkable governmental boondoggle, came under attack again with the announcement that the Justice Department is investigating a key component of No Child Left Behind- the Reading First program:

The disclosure came as a congressional hearing revealed how people implementing the $1 billion-a-year Reading First program made at least $1 million off textbooks and tests toward which the federal government steered states.
"That sounds like a criminal enterprise to me," said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House education committee, which held a five-hour investigative hearing. "You don't get to override the law," he angrily told a panel of Reading First officials. "But the fact of the matter is that you did."

It seems to be a pattern developing at both the state and federal level for officials to implement laws and then to allow their cronies and sometimes even themselves benefit from the legislation.