[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 13 (Monday, April 5, 1993)]
[Page 505]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Nomination of David Longanecker and Sharon Porter Robinson To Be 
Assistant Secretaries of Education

 March 29, 1993

    The President named two national education leaders to key positions 
at the Department of Education today, expressing his intention to 
nominate Colorado education official David Longanecker to be Assistant 
Secretary for Postsecondary Education and education innovator Sharon 
Porter Robinson to be Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and 
Improvement.
    ``I have pledged to make the Department of Education a center for 
innovative policymaking,'' said the President. ``David Longanecker and 
Sharon Porter Robinson will join with Secretary Riley and the rest of 
his team to bring the leadership that will make that happen.''

Note: Biographies of the nominees were made available by the Office of 
the Press Secretary.