The test writer concealed the former teacher s name in a logic question. It was discovered by students at North Thurston High School in Lacey. A federal grand jury indicted four Education Department employees and seven other individuals last week on various accounts of fraud and theft at the Education Department. The indictments follow a year-long probe into accounts of waste, fraud and abuse at the Department. The department has failed to receive a clean audit three years in a row.
Federal authorities say that seven people have already pleaded guilty to charges.
Reuters News Service reported that, at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research and Child Development, government researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development released a summary of the results of the largest study ever done on the effects of nonmaternal day care. The study noted that it is not yet possible to determine whether the behavior will continue as they grow older. Paige s primary goal is to obtain a clean audit from the department s auditors something that has not happened for three fiscal years. Nearly one third could not name the writer of The Star Spangled Banner.