Democrats Seek Education Dept. ‘Recovery Czar’
Spellings says her agency lacks construction expertise.
As congressional Democrats declared last week that federal efforts to help Gulf Coast schools with hurricane recovery aren’t working, school officials from the region hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year urged lawmakers to provide more regulatory flexibility and more money.
On April 26, House Democrats released a report criticizing the Bush administration’s efforts to aid hurricane-affected schools and colleges. They said the Department of Education should name an “education recovery czar” to take responsibility away from the Federal Emergency Management Agency because of what they see as its floundering record.
“Common sense would dictate that the U.S. Department of Education—an agency with experience and expertise in dealing with the education community—should have been given primary responsibility for education recovery,” Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said at a news...
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