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Deborah Price
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Alumna
Named Head of Drug-Free Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced
recently that Deborah A. Price, BS HE ’72, has been named
deputy under secretary in charge of the Office
of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Price will oversee the
Department’s
activities related to safe schools, crisis response, alcohol
and drug prevention, health and well-being of students and
building strong character and citizenship. She also will
lead the Department’s
homeland security efforts.
Prior to her appointment, Price was
chief of staff at the Department’s
Office
of Federal Student Aid, a $60 billion-a-year operation that
delivers student financial aid to more than nine million students
and families. Before this, she was executive director of the
Secretary’s
Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, the blue-ribbon panel
charged with examining Title IX, and a senior adviser to the
deputy secretary of education.
“Debbie’s public
service experience in policy issues at the legislative and executive
levels makes her an ideal candidate to lead our safe and drug-free
schools efforts, and I know the Department will benefit from
her leadership,” Secretary
Paige said. “The safety of our schools is a priority
issue in this administration, which is why, under No Child
Left Behind, we are helping parents move their children to
safer schools.”
Before joining the Bush administration,
Price was policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Don Nickles (R., Okla.),
who was then assistant majority leader. Prior to this, she
was director of research and administration for the Senate
Republican Policy Committee under Sen. Nickles. Before joining
Sen. Nickles’ staff, Price
worked for Sen. William L. Armstrong (R., Colo.) and also directed
the 1985 National Prayer Breakfast.
A native of St. Louis, Mo.,
Price is working on a master of theology degree from Fuller
Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.
Price replaces Eric
G. Andell, who resigned in October 2003.
The Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools was created in September 2002 to bring together
all of the Department’s safety, health
and citizenship programs. The office works closely with schools
to develop plans to deal with the variety of threats they face
which, if not addressed, could impede teaching and learning.
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