Bush's Elementry Reading Program Ineffective. Who do you blame?

I can't believe politics. The New York Times article, "Reading Program is Called Ineffective" explains how progress has not been made in grades 1, 2, and 3. Ever since the No Child Left Behind act, people have been blaming the White House for it's inadequacies, and it might have problems, I don't know; I am not an educator or someone very versed in educational policy. However, I do know that when a one billion dollar plan is approved, you can't expect it to succeed nearly as well when the budget is cut 60%. There seems to be some scandal going on over officials of the program having an interest in publishers whose books they pushed schools to buy. However, I am appalled at Washington's strategy of cutting funding to programs when they don't like how it is run rather than working to make the program work better.

For the record, the plan was approved by a Republican controlled congress, and our championed Democrat controlled congress decided to cut the budget.