Posted on 08/27/2013 12:44:53 PM PDT by Steve Peacock
A U.S. government effort to discourage students from dropping out of secondary and even primary school has been extended, giving a federal contractor two more years to achieve the Obama Administration's goals in this program. The initiative, however, focuses on students in the Middle East and Asia.
Creative Associates International since 2010 has carried out the School Dropout Prevention Pilot program (SDPP) in Cambodia, India, Tajikistan, and Timor Leste on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which awarded Creative a three-year task order with a $51.5 million maximum ceiling.
The contract balance is projected to remain around $25.5 million by September, necessitating no additional program costs, according to a Justification & Approval for Other Than Full & Open Competition (J&A) document that U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor located through routine database research.
The J&A claims that opening up the project to competitive bidding would have interfered with ongoing research, data collection, and program-implementation, subsequently resulting in unnecessary costs to the government.
How about “No high school degree, no welfare, Obamaphones, food stamps, etc. etc?”
Betcha that’s have some effect.
Oops, sorry for the Obama-voter English there.
Change “Betcha that’s have some effect.” to “Betcha that’ll have an effect.”
Just GIVE 'em a diploma ... problem fixed ... 100% graduation rate.
Stroke o'th'pen, law o'th'land .. pretty cool, eh ?
Why are we spending money to prevent children in other countries from becoming dropouts? We have lots of would-be dropouts here we could try pilot programs on.
The wet dream of every Free Trade Commie is to take American wealth and redistribute it to all foreigners.....and I get called Big Government by the Free Trade Commies
The money being used comes from the pot of money to push Free Trade....your tax dollars of course
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