Capital Digest

Education Department programs apparently will not be the target of spending-cut proposals to be offered by the White House over the next several weeks.

A spokesman for Leon E. Panetta, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said last week that, although the National Performance Review recommended that 41 unspecified education programs be eliminated, those cuts would likely not be proposed until the President unveils his fiscal 1995 budget.

The Clinton Administration last week announced a $12 billion rescission bill that was based on recommendations in Vice President Gore's N.P.R. report, but it did not include any...