I think by Mike Rose using the title "The Politics of Remediation" he has incorporated many different aspects of the "special programs" which many institutions are constantly adding and dropping.
On pages 194 and 195, Rose talks about how many administrators and faculty were suspect to the programs he was involved in. Such questions came up as "were they qualified to do it?" and were the programs actually keeping unqualified children in school rather than helping qualified students succeed. These are some of the "Politics" Mike Rose had to deal with when in the institution at UCLA. The programs which he worked and supported and it's budgets where some what of a "political campaign" in itself. Rose has to find supporters to back him who could help keeping the budget, and keep at bay his offenders who were trying to defeat him and have their budget money placed elsewhere.
The opposers of the programs Rose so strongly supports voice the opinion that students should already have the knowledge of remedial courses. Rose of course sticks to his opinion that mistakes mark the beginning of learning, and that not everyone is smart in the way that is defined by the institution or government.
I think "The Politics of Remediation" incorporates more than just the programs which Rose was struggling to keep at UCLA. If one looks at the work remediation, it means to correct an error or deficiency. I think Rose is implying that the errors are more in the system of education and the correcting of the errors is what he is dealing with.
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