Ed. Dept.’s Ethics Are Praised Amid Disclosure Conflict

The Department of Education won a federal award last year for its “creative, innovative” ethics-training program for employees. Now the department’s inspector general, John P. Higgins Jr., has also given a thumbs-up to the department’s ethics-screening procedures for contractors and peer reviewers, some of which were instituted last year after a scathing 2006 review of Reading First found potential conflicts of...

This article is available to subscribers only.

To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article.

Already have an account? Please login.


Subscribe to Education Week and Save

Get a full year and save up to 45%!

Premium Online + Print


37 issues + Online Access
$89

You Save 45%

SUBSCRIBE NOW

(See details.)

Premium Online


12 Months Online Access
$74

You Save 38%

SUBSCRIBE NOW

(See details.)


Most Popular Stories

Viewed

Emailed

Recommended

Commented