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February 12, 2003

Secretary of Education Rod Paige on an auditor's findings of his agency's management.

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Transcript: And so today it gives me real pleasure to announce that the Department of Education has received the first clean audit in many years and only the second one in the history of the Department. And this is not going to be an aberration; this is going to be a standard way of operating.

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Transcript: I am also proud to report that the Office of Management and Budget has given this Department its seal of approval as well—with a perfect scorecard for progress in improving management. This is especially rewarding since we had such a distance to come.

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