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To: Win Smith who started this subject	12/2/2002 8:08:24 PM
From: Win Smith	of 603

Educational Overhaul? sciencemag.org Social scientists are protesting what they say is a Bush Administration move to bury research reports that run counter to its policies. More than a dozen professional societies have written to Education Secretary Rod Paige, demanding that his department consult with researchers before deleting information from its Web site. The department's site (www.ed.gov) houses more than 50,000 files, including databases widely used by social scientists, such as the National Center for Educational Statistics. In September, the department said it planned to delete up to 13,000 pages as part of an overhaul. A leaked internal memo directed officials to delete pages not "consistent with the Administration's philosophy," unless they were needed for legal, historical, or nonpolitical reasons. "This is public information, and it shouldn't be removed at the whim of political appointees," says spokesperson Patrice McDermott of the American Library Association in Washington, D.C., one of the protesting groups. But department spokesperson Dan Langan says not to worry: "At the end of the day, the information will still be available in a Web-based format."

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