And all of those statistics on reading comprehension were dramatically higher prior to the formation of the department of education and federal funding of education. I don't believe for a minute that the DOE is incompetent or that this wasn't the intended outcome. All they have to do is have a press conference saying they are for educating the "underprivileged" or "poor" or "minorities" and they are safe from any sort of scrutiny. It's the shield of the "Great Society" that protects them all.
They need to get that money flowing back to the US politicians as fast as possible. Time might run out on the money laundering.