Mission Accomplished
May 18, 2010
WASHINGTON -- If politics were as data-driven as baseball, and scorekeepers kept a statistic to measure how much impact a person had per day or week or month, Robert Shireman would almost certainly have made the all-star team.
The U.S. Education Department is expected to formally announce today that Shireman, the U.S. deputy under secretary of education, will leave his position July 1 after 14 months in the job. Shireman's departure was widely expected, given that he and his family had been happily ensconced in the Bay Area for more than a decade and that the primary goal that drew him back to Washington -- the prospect of securing the future of the government's Direct Student Loan Program and ending all lending through the competing Federal Family Education Loan Program -- was accomplished when Congress passed budget legislation in March.
