Chicago’s former school superintendent, Paul Vallas, has flunked the Annenberg education foundation headed by Barack Obama and founded by 1960s bomber Bill Ayers. The foundation gave out $50 million in grants to 200-plus public schools that partnered with community-based groups — which performed no better than other public schools.

The well-respected Vallas minces no words in criticizing the Obama/Ayers record:

There was a total lack of accountability. If you went back and asked, you’d be hard-pressed to find out how the money was spent … Very little of the money found its way directly into the classroom … Many of the school-reform groups viewed greater accountability as an infringement of local control. Some opposed ending social promotion and grade retention.

In other words — and bad news for poor minority children in an Obama presidency — the candidate and his crew at Annenberg failed to monitor projects and bolstered school “reform” groups that opposed stricter academic standards.