General John P. Higgins Jr.

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  living.the-environmentalist.org/2008/05/rethinking-lear - [Cached Version]
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  Congressional investigators and Education Department Inspector General John Higgins previously found that federal officials and contractors didn't adequately address potential conflicts of interest.For example, contractors that gave states advice on which teaching materials to buy had financial ties to publishers of Reading First materials.Higgins also testified that the department didn't comply with the law when setting up panels that would review grant applications and in establishing criteria for teaching materials.

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  News - Inspector General John Higgins said his office began investigating Reading First in May 2005 after receiving complaints of favoritism.He told the Education and Labor Committee that the law calls for a balanced…

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  The New York Times reports John P. Higgins, the inspector general of the Department of Education, "has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president's brother."
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  Higgins "said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush's company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex."
  
  DHS To Investigate Offensive Costume

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  Published on: 10/20/2007    Last Visited: 10/20/2007  

  Auditors for Education Department Inspector General John P. Higgins Jr. concluded that some of those techniques failed to meet criteria that would qualify the lenders for payments.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 5/2/2008  

  Congressional investigators and Education Department Inspector General John Higgins previously found that federal officials and contractors didn't adequately address potential conflicts of interest.For example, federal contractors that gave states advice on which teaching materials to buy had financial ties to publishers of Reading First materials, according to the investigations.
  
  Higgins also testified to Congress that the department didn't comply with the law when setting up panels that would review grant applications and in establishing criteria for what teaching materials could be used.

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  Published on: 5/26/2007    Last Visited: 5/26/2007  

  + Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) wrote a letter to Department of Education Inspector General John Higgins on Oct. 31 urging him to investigate "any conflict of interest between lenders and the universities to which they offer outsized incentives based on how much students borrow."
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  + "The first obligation of any college or university is to help its students, not the lenders," Durbin wrote in the letter to Higgins.

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  www.agacgfm.org/publications/topics/062104/index.aspx - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/27/2004    Last Visited: 7/12/2006  

  , John P. Higgins Jr., CGFM, CISA, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education

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  www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/may/29/grand-jury-indicts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/29/2007    Last Visited: 6/29/2007  

  John P. Higgins, Jr., Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Education, said, "OIG Special Agents aggressively pursue those who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of our nation's students.

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  www.bangkokpost.net/education/site2007/nfmy2907.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/25/2007    Last Visited: 1/7/2008  

  Catherine Grant, a spokeswoman for Education Department Inspector General John Higgins, would say only that Crew's request had been received.

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  Published on: 7/19/2007    Last Visited: 7/28/2007  

  John Otero, as well as Inspector General John P. Higgins, Jr. and U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General Special Agent Jeremy Hunt, who assisted in this investigation.

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