Bush Nominates Commissioner for Statistics Agency
Mark S. Schneider, President Bush’s new pick to head the National Center for Education Statistics, is a far less controversial figure than his first choice for the job, comments last week from researchers and education advocates suggest.
The NCES, which collects, analyzes, and reports data on the nation’s educational progress, has been without a permanent commissioner since 1999.
President Bush tapped Robert Lerner, a Rockville, Md.-based social scientist, to head the center in 2003 but that nomination ran into opposition from researchers, gay-rights groups, and civil rights organizations over Mr. Lerner’s conservative positions on hot-button social issues. ( "Lerner's Writings Raise Objectivity Concerns," June 18, 2003)
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