$694,000 U of L grant is subject of federal investigation
A $694,000 project grant managed by former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner is part of a criminal investigation into whether federal funds were mishandled.
Documents obtained from U of L in an open-records request show that the grant's purpose was to create a center that would be a "unique collaborative effort" with the Kentucky Education Department and Jefferson County Public Schools, among others, and would help schools meet testing goals of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Yet no one with the Jefferson County Public Schools or the state Education Department know about the grant, or that such a center was created, according to interviews with state and district officials...
...But several people and groups that documents indicate should have known of the grant told The Courier-Journal they were not aware of it -- or of the center it funded.
Former Kentucky Education Secretary Virginia Fox, identified in documents as chairwomen of an interagency advisory committee that was suppose to develop polices for the center, said she had "never heard of it."
"I was never told I was on a committee, nor did I chair a committee," she said in an interview.
And Robert Rodosky, the Jefferson County schools' director of accountability, research and assessment, said he met regularly with Felner but "we never talked about this. I do not know what this thing is."
Lisa Gross, spokeswomen for the state Department of Education, said she checked with several staffers, and "it doesn't ring a bell with anyone." ...
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