President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans

Impact dates

1. Apr 30, 2003

   Commission terminates 30 days after submitting final report

2. Mar 31, 2003

   Commission Final Report due to President with recommendations including multi-year plan

3. Sep 30, 2002

   Agency reports to President through Initiative on Hispanic participation in federal education programs

4. Sep 30, 2002

   Commission Interim Report due to President

Key directives

• Establish 25-member Commission in Department of Education with 21 presidential appointees and 4 ex officio members from ED, HUD, Treasury, and SBA
• Establish White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans headed by senior executive reporting to Secretary of Education
• Commission to advise Secretary and issue reports to President on Hispanic American educational achievement gap and No Child Left Behind goals
• Initiative to gather and disseminate information on achievement gap through surveys, conferences, field hearings, and meetings
• Executive agencies to cooperate in providing resources including personnel details to Initiative
• Agencies to report to President through Initiative by September 30, 2002 on Hispanic participation in federal education programs
• Commission to submit Interim Report by September 30, 2002
• Commission to submit Final Report by March 31, 2003 with multi-year plan and accountability monitoring system recommendations
• Commission terminates 30 days after final report unless extended by President
• Revoke Executive Order 12900

Who is ordered

• Secretary of Education · Department of Education
• Secretary of Housing and Urban Development · Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Secretary of the Treasury · Department of the Treasury
• Administrator of the Small Business Administration · Small Business Administration
• agency heads · executive branch departments and agencies

Timeline

Risks & tensions

• Advisory-only structure with no direct enforcement authority; recommendations are non-binding
• Unclear funding commitment: 'to the extent permitted by law' qualifier on Department of Education support
• Potential tension between new Bush-era framework and prior Clinton-era approach (EO 12900 revoked)
• No Child Left Behind referenced repeatedly as governing framework, tying commission's relevance to that law's political durability
• Vague 'measurable impact' reporting requirement may lead to inconsistent agency compliance
• Commission's temporary nature (automatic termination) limits institutional memory unless extended