As the mechanism for apportioning congressional districts — and
billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data — the census has always been a political football.
In the Manhattan
federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds
of thousands
of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts
linked to the upstate Buffalo
Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.
The critics
of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending
billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems
linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out
federal education
dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes
of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent
of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.