Claim: Photograph captures President George W. Bush holding a book upside-down in a classroom.
Status: False.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bushbook.asp
original photo:
Origins: This may be a funny picture, but even if were real, it would still be just a funny picture. If it weren't a manipulated image, it could have come about because an aide handed the book to President Bush for a quick schoolroom photo opportunity, the President didn't immediately notice it was upside-down because he was looking at the student to his right, and a photographer managed to snap a picture before the error was corrected. It might also be possible (but hard to determine from this image) that the books President Bush and the student were holding had removable dust jacket-type covers, but the cover of the President's copy had been put on backwards, so it looked as if he were holding the book upside-down even though he really wasn't.
The photo does show some tell-tale signs of digital editing, so the real explanation is that someone took an existing picture and flipped the image of the book in President Bush's hands. Note, for example, that the picture on the back of the book in the student's hands and the one on the back of the book President Bush is holding are the reverse of each other, a dead giveaway that the photo was manipulated.
Like Bush or dislike Bush, at least don't use faked images [note: I don't support the faked images of Kerry and Fonda either.]
Regarding education: Regardless of educatio spending going up or down, education is best handled by the local and county levels. Throwing money at school systems doesn't inherently mean 'smarter kids.' I heard on the radio a comparison of average teacher salaries versus childrens' performance. In NO instances did performance rise as salaries went up [on a non-merit basis], and in most cases, it was the opposite.