Thursday, August 8, 2002

Tom Ridge's school daze Rarely is there any good news for the benighted czar of the "homeland," Tom Ridge. His difficult job is made no easier by widespread doubts about his competence in the Capitol. Lately, however, the worst news for Ridge is emanating from his own homeland of Pennsylvania. The national press hasn't caught onto this story yet, but the Philadelphia papers are strongly suggesting that the former governor left behind a festering scandal when he departed for Washington last fall. The decision by Ridge's education department to award a $2.7 million no-bid contract to Edison Schools for a study of Philadelphia's ailing school system -- and the subsequent takeover of 20 city schools by the Edison corporation - are subjects of investigation now by city, state and federal agencies. [Salon: Joe Conason's Journal] Another Bush appointee faces a coruption investigation. What else is new?!...mj 3:17:03 PM

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