9:00
Improving Congressional Oversight and the Evaluation of the Performance of Education Programs
Hon. Mike Castle (R-Del), Chairman, House Subcommittee on Education Reform
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif), Ranking Member, House Subcommittee on Education Reform
Hon. Danny Davis (D-Ill), House Subcommittee on Select Education

9:30
Overview of the Program Assessement Rating Tool Process Used in the FY05 Budget
Carl DeMaio, President, The Performance Institute

10:00
What the PART Has Told Us About the Performance of Education Programs
Kathy Stack, White House Office of Management and Budget

10:45
Stakeholder Dialogue: How Can the PART and Other Oversight Tools be Used by Congress and Education Committees to Evaluate and Compare Program Performance
Moderated by Carl DeMaio, President, The Performance Institute

12:15
Adjourn

All speakers are confirmed.

This forum will focus on how education programs have fared under a new evaluation system being used by the White House Office of Management and Budget: the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). Using the PART as a starting point, Executive and Legislative officials, external stakeholders and experts will dialogue on how to improve performance measures and subsequent evaluations applied to the nation’s federal education programs.

You are invited to help answer this question and explore how to improve Congressional oversight of the nation’s education programs at the “Education Performance Dialogue.”

To make this process fully effective, the Dialogue will feature a discussion between Congressional staff and education stakeholders on how to make education program performance information available during the annual PART evaluation, budget and appropriations process, as well as to the American people. We hope you’ll join us for this unique opportunity to participate in an important discussion.