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Let the Education Department handle the money
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Posted on Apr 16 2009
It’s a shame that the governor would side with other governors from the U.S. Virgin Island, Guam and American Samoa by asking President Obama to let the Department of the Interior administer the stabilization funds, and not the Department of Education. This in itself speaks volumes that you as our governor is not a leader but a follower and that your fight defending self-governance is nothing but a joke. As the leader of our homeland why would you care about how the rest of the insular areas spend their educational stimulus, or who controls it for that matter.
Such a letter to the president of the United States at a time when you are suing the federal government on our right to self-governance is somewhat ridiculous. This in itself is blatantly admitting incompetence that truly our own government can’t handle the accountability and responsibility of federal funds, completely contradicting your lawsuit defending our right to self-governance.
If the Department of Education had no accountability or responsibility over federal funds entrusted to them well over two decades, then we would all be in deep trouble and both local and federal agents would be storming our Public School System and charging everyone with a crime. But to date we had not heard of any such incident.
The most complaints that we had heard from teachers, students, administrators and the community were the unjustified reprogramming and reprogramming our children’s educational funding by a governor that uses and abuses his executive authority then turns around and states his named was forged.
This is serious issue concerning the much needed funding for our Public School Systems, something our government does not have. Therefore we believe every effort to obtain the stabilization funds must be prioritized, since every elected official in our homeland had made “education” a top priority in their platforms, including the Better Times camp.
[B]Gregorio Cruz Jr. [/B] [I]Taotao Tano CNMI Inc.[/I]
