"Some contractors have billed the program for jewelry, expensive clothing, vacations to Mexico and spa trips to the Canyon Ranch resort, The Times found in a review of a decade’s worth of education, financial and court records. Others have hired relatives at inflated salaries or for no-show jobs, or funneled public money into expensive rents paid by their preschools to entities they control personally. "


Well, duh--obviously, this is no good. Corruption is no good wherever it is. But if we're talking about investing in proven early intervention for kids with disabilities--look, early intervention is where it's at, in so many ways. If you want these children to succeed later on, to graduate from high school and hold productive jobs and not become a drain on the system, yada yada, as I'm sure you do, you need to reach them young.