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...Hale A. Champion, special assistant to President Bok and former undersecretary of the Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), said yesterday, the proposal "basically just moves the Office of Education into a department...
ESSENTIALLY, the legislation would transfer control of more than 300 federal education programs, now administered by about 40 federal agencies, to one centralized department. Proponents of the bill argue that the monstrous Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)--never known for its efficiency--is crushing its education offspring in clammy bureaucratic jaws. The Commissioner of Education--the junior executive version of an education secretary--labors under four layers of bureaucratic waste; if, and when he sends up a flare, it never makes it to the top. It is an all too familiar tale of Washington woe: nobody knows...
...extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department to the Federal Security Agency and finally coming to rest at HEW. Carter is simply grabbing at a simplistic solution, lifting the "E" out of HEW and dumping it into yet another foster home. New cabinet departments need more than a little luck and a few Senate-approved Secretaries to get off the ground. The fledgling Department of Energy's inability...
...THERE ARE PROBLEMS with federal education apparatus--and there clearly are--cutting the umbilical cord between education and its bureaucratic mother is no way to solve them. The estimated $17 million needed to establish a Department of Education would be better spent in an internal reorganization of HEW. Some interest groups have supported the idea of reorganization along the lines of the military services in the Department of Defense, an idea that must be explored further...
Last February, while Joseph A. Califano was HEW secretary, the WCC requested that HEW sponsor the conference...