COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION JUNE 6, 1996 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight 43-818 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1997 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois PETER BLUTE, Massachusetts WILLIAM J. MARTINI, New Jersey MICHAEL PATRICK FLANAGAN, Illinois ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Maryland CARDISS COLLINS, Illinois ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia JOHN M. SPRATT, JR., South Carolina PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin BARBARA-ROSE COLLINS, Michigan ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Columbia JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia GENE GREEN, Texas CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont JAMES L. CLARKE, Staff Director .G663 g CONTENTS Barnes, Letha, chairman of the American Association of Cosmetology Schools; Thomas Kube, executive director of the Accrediting Commis- sion of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology [ACCŠCT]; and P. Alistair MacKinnon, coordinator of Federal Education Legislation for the New York State Department of Education, accompanied by Thomas McCord, coordinator, Office of Research and Information Sys- tems for Higher and Professional Education, and Nancy Willie-Schiff, Blanchette, Cornelia M., Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, General Accounting Office, accompanied by Wayne Upshaw, Assistant Director; and C. Jeff Appel, Senior Evaluator, General Ac- Longanecker, David A., Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education; and Thomas R. Bloom, Inspector General for the Department of Edu- cation, accompanied by Pat Howard, Branch Chief for Postsecondary Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by: Barnes, Letha, chairman of the American Association of Cosmetology Green, Hon. Gene, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, Kube, Thomas, executive director of the Accrediting Commission of Ca- reer Schools and Colleges of Technology [ACCSCT), prepared statement Longanecker, David A., Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, MacKinnon, P. Alistair, coordinator of Federal Education Legislation for the New York State Department of Education, prepared statement (III) |