Education Dept. Plans To Break Up Evaluation Office
It's an obscure little office, just 50 or so people within the sprawling Department of Education bureaucracy.
But the Planning and Evaluation Service, given that one of its duties has been to pass judgment on the agency's flagship programs, has drawn considerable political heat and attention during past Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Rightly or wrongly, the political party out of power has often looked askance at the conclusions put out by the service and its longtime director, Alan L. Ginsburg.
"They've been analysts to whomever was in power," said Jack Jennings, the director of the Center on Education Policy, a Washington think tank, and a former education aide to House Democrats. "All things considered, being under political pressure, they've tried to call it as...
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