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...weigh it," he says, "my scale tips the other direction." The dean says that in order to determine national educational policies, one must add up the views of the Director of the National Institute for Education, the Commissioner of Education (who heads the Office of Education within HEW) and the Assistant Secretary for Education...
...special study team presented him with three options for redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation of a Department of Education and Human Services; and (3) uplifting the status of the Education division of HEW. Carter opted for the first alternative. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) got the ball rolling on Capital Hill, and the fight...
Education policy, says Ylvisaker, is too fragmented. "Within HEW," he says, "it tends to get submerged; health is number one, welfare is number two, and education just plods along behind all that." The dean compares educational policy to urban policy, saying that somebody must risk making clear and controversial arguments. "You have to put somebody in charge if you're going to get a coherent policy," he says, adding, "I would rather have one person in charge--even to shoot at--to clarify policy rather than run around to 1000 different departments with different responsibilities...
Stephen K. Bailey, professor Education and Social Policy and president of the National Academy of Education, says he has been devoted to the notion of a separate Department of Education for more than 10 years. "HEW suffers from elephantitis," says Bailey. "Enormous budgets and resources end up going to the 'H' and the 'W' but not to the 'E."' The Commissioner of Education, as Bailey puts it, is on the fourth bureaucratic level. To make matters worse, he argues, "there have been 15 commissioners in the last 18 years--it's just a revolving door. Nobody knows who's responsible...
...that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove a demonstrable need for a new department. Destruction of HEW, they predict, would fracture a delicate but workable coalition of federal bureaucrats responsible for education...