Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath Before the Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee
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STATEMENT
by Earl James MeGrath, Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Kashington, D.C.
Mr. Chairman and Nembers of the Committee:
I wish to. preface the discussion of the 1952 budget submissions of
the Office of Education with a brief statement of explanation.
With an allotment of $15,000 from the "Funds for Management Improve-
ment, Executive Office of the President," the Office of Education last May
began a careful study of its organization in the light of its purposes and
functions. The Public Administration Service of Chicago was engaged to
complete the study, and rendered its final report in the last waek of
November, 1950. A Council of Advisers, made up of twenty-nine leading
educators of the lation,considered this report. with the benefit of advice
from this Council, and in the light of the recommendations of the Public
Administration Service's study, we have completed a plan of reorganization
within the Office of Education, effective on February 9, 1951.
Two principal changes heve been made: (1) a reduction of the number
of operating divisions from seven to three, and (2) the mobilizing of a number-
of top staff persons, formerly attached loosely to the Commissioner's office,
in a compact unit for program development and coordination. (SEE CHART)
These two devices give us an of fice structure which will permit flexibility
of operations, enabling us to form as needed compact, hard-hitting task forces
which can more immediately and directly serve the needs of American education.
This flexibility and mobility, desirable for normal peacetime operations, is
doubly necessary in view of the need for quick and effective action in the
emergency.
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Before the Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee,
U, So House of Representatives, lebruary 20, 1951.
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