June 24, 2005

U.S. Education Department Audit Criticizes State Scholars Program

By SILLA BRUSH

A program that encourages high-school students to take rigorous courses and that enjoys strong support from President Bush has come under fire from the U.S. Education Department for accounting and administrative problems.

In an audit report issued this month, the department's Office of the Inspector General says that the State Scholars program, which was founded in Texas in the late 1980s and received a four-year, $9.6-million federal grant in 2002, did not properly account for

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