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Executive Order
13171 of October 12, 2000
Hispanic Employment In The Federal Government
By the authority invested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to
improve the representation of Hispanics in Federal employment,
within merit system principles and consistent with the application
of appropriate veterans' preference criteria, to achieve a Federal
workforce drawn from all segments of society, it is hereby ordered
as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the executive
branch to recruit qualified individuals from appropriate sources
in an effort to achieve a workforce drawn from all segments of
society. Pursuant to this policy, this Administration notes that
Hispanics remain underrepresented in the Federal workforce: they
make up only 6.4 percent of the Federal civilian workforce, roughly
half of their total representation in the civilian labor force.
This Executive Order, therefore, affirms ongoing policies and
recommends additional policies to eliminate the under presentation
of Hispanics in the Federal workforce.
Section 2. Responsibilities of Executive Departments
and Agencies. The head of each executive department and agency
(agency) shall establish and maintain a program for the recruitment
and career development of Hispanics in Federal employment. In
its program, each agency shall:
- provide a plan for recruiting Hispanics that
creates a fully diverse workforce for the agency in the 21st
century;
- assess and eliminate any systemic barriers to
the effective recruitment and consideration of Hispanics, including
but not limited to:
- broadening the area of consideration to include applicants
from all appropriate sources;
- ensuring that selection factors are appropriate and
achieve the broadest consideration of applicants and do
not impose barriers to selection based on non merit
factors; and
- considering the appointment of Hispanic Federal executives
to rating, selection, performance review, and executive
resources panels and boards;
- improve outreach efforts to include organizations outside
the Federal Government in order to increase the number of Hispanic
candidates in the selection pool for the Senior Executive Service;
- promote participation of Hispanic employees in management,
leadership, and career development programs;
- ensure that performance plans for senior executives,
managers, and supervisors include specific language related
to significant accomplishments on diversity recruitment and
career development and that
accountability is predicated on those plans;
- establish appropriate agency advisory councils that include
Hispanic Employment Program Managers;
- implement the goals of the Government-wide Hispanic Employment
Initiatives issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
in September 1997 (Nine-Point Plan), and the Report to the
President's Management Council on Hispanic Employment in the
Federal Government of March 1999;
- ensure that managers and supervisors receive periodic
training in diversity management in order to carry out their
responsibilities to maintain a diverse workforce; and
- reflect a continuing priority for eliminating Hispanic
under representation in the Federal workforce and incorporate
actions under this order as strategies for achieving workforce
diversity goals in the agency's Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) Annual Performance Plan.
Section 3. Cooperation. All efforts taken by heads
of agencies under sections 1 and 2 of this order shall, as appropriate,
further partnerships and cooperation among Federal, public, and
private sector employers, and appropriate Hispanic organizations
whenever such partnerships and cooperation are possible and would
promote the Federal employment of qualified individuals. In developing
the long-term comprehensive strategies required by section 2 of
this order, agencies shall, as appropriate, consult with and seek
information and advice from experts in the areas of special targeted
recruitment and diversity in employment.
Section 4. Responsibilities of the Office of Personnel
Management. The Office of Personnel Management is required by
law and regulations to undertake a Government-wide minority recruitment
effort. Pursuant to that ongoing effort and in implementation
of this order, the Director of OPM shall:
- provide Federal human resources management policy guidance
to address Hispanic under representation where it occurs;
- take the lead in promoting diversity to executive agencies.
For such actions as deemed appropriate to promote equal employment
opportunity;
- within 180 days from the date of this order, prescribe
such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes
of this order;
- within 60 days from the date of this order, establish
an Interagency Task Force, chaired by the Director and composed
of agency officials at the Deputy Secretary level, or the equivalent.
This Task Force shall meet semiannually to:
- review best practices in strategic human resources
management planning, including alignment with agency GPRA
plans;
- assess overall executive branch progress in complying
with the requirements of this order;
- provide advice on ways to increase Hispanic community
involvement; and
- recommend any further actions, as appropriate, in
eliminating the under representation of Hispanics in the
Federal workforce where it occurs; and
- issue an annual report with findings and recommendations
to the President on the progress made by agencies on matters
related to this order. The first annual report shall be issued
no later than 1 year from the date of this order.
Section 5. Judicial Review. This order is intended
only to improve the internal management of the executive branch.
It does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable in law or equity except as may be identified in existing
laws and regulations, by a party against the United States, its
agencies, its officers or employees, or any other person.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 12, 2000
Executive Order
13230 of October 12, 2001
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Commission
Executive Order
President's Advisory Commission on Educational
Excellence for Hispanic Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to
advance the development of human potential, strengthen the Nation's
capacity to provide high-quality education, and increase opportunities
for Hispanic Americans to participate in and benefit from Federal
education programs, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. There is established, in the Department
of Education, the President's Advisory Commission on Educational
Excellence for Hispanic Americans (Commission). The Commission
shall consist of not more than 25 members. Twenty-one of the members
shall be appointed by the President. Those members shall be representatives
of educational, business, professional, and community organizations
who are committed to improving educational attainment within the
Hispanic community, as well as other persons deemed appropriate
by the President. The President shall designate two of the appointed
members to serve as Co-Chairs of the Commission. The other four
members of the Commission shall be ex officio members, one each
from the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, the Department of the Treasury, and the Small
Business Administration. The ex officio members shall be the respective
Secretaries of those agencies and the Administrator of the Small
Business Administration, or their designees.
Section 2. The Commission shall provide advice
to the Secretary of Education ("Secretary") and shall
issue reports to the President, as described in section 7 below,
concerning:
- the progress of Hispanic Americans in closing the academic
achievement gap and attaining the goals established by the
President's "No Child Left Behind" educational blueprint;
- the development, monitoring, and coordination of Federal
efforts to promote high-quality education for Hispanic Americans;
- ways to increase parental, State and local, private sector,
and community involvement in improving education; and
- ways to maximize the effectiveness of Federal education
initiatives within the Hispanic community.
Section 3. There is established, in the Department of Education,
an office called the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence
for Hispanic Americans (Initiative). The Initiative shall be located
at, staffed, and supported by the Department of Education, and
headed by a Director, who shall be a senior level executive branch
official who reports to the Secretary. The Initiative shall provide
the necessary staff, resources, and assistance to the Commission
and shall assist and advise the Secretary in carrying out his
responsibilities under this order. The staff of the Initiative
shall gather and disseminate information relating to the educational
achievement gap of Hispanic Americans, using a variety of means,
including conducting surveys, conferences, field hearings, and
meetings, and other appropriate vehicles designed to encourage
the participation of organizations and individuals interested
in such issues, including parents, community leaders, academicians,
business leaders, teachers, employers, employees and public officials
at the local, State, and Federal levels. To the extent permitted
by law, executive branch departments and agencies shall cooperate
in providing resources, including personnel detailed to the Initiative,
to meet the objectives of this order. The Initiative shall include
both career civil service and appointed staff with expertise in
the area of education.
Section 4. Executive branch departments and agencies,
to the extent permitted by law and practicable, shall provide
any appropriate information requested by the Commission or the
staff of the Initiative, including data relating to the eligibility
for and participation by Hispanic Americans in Federal education
programs and the progress of Hispanic Americans in closing the
academic achievement gap and in achieving the goals of the President's
"No Child Left Behind" education blueprint. Where adequate
data are not available, the Commission shall suggest the means
for collecting the data. In accordance with the accountability
goals established by the President, executive branch departments
and agencies involved in relevant programs shall report to the
President through the Initiative by September 30, 2002, on:
- efforts to increase participation of Hispanic Americans
in Federal education programs and services;
- efforts to include Hispanic-serving school districts,
Hispanic-serving institutions, and other educational institutions
for Hispanic Americans in Federal education programs and services;
- levels of participation attained by Hispanic Americans
in Federal education programs and services; and
- the measurable impact resulting from these efforts and
levels of participation. The Department of Education's report
also shall describe the overall condition of Hispanic American
education and such other aspects of the educational status
of Hispanic Americans, as the Secretary considers appropriate.
Section 5. Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee
Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App), may apply to the Commission, any
functions of the President under that Act, except that of reporting
to the Congress, shall be performed by the Department of Education
in accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the
Administrator of General Services.
Section 6.
- Members of the Commission shall
serve without compensation, but shall be allowed travel expenses,
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized
by law for persons serving intermittently in the Government
service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).
- To the extent permitted by law, the Department of Education
shall provide funding and administrative support for the
Commission and the Initiative.
Section 7. The Commission shall prepare and submit
an interim and final report to the President outlining its findings
and recommendations as follows:
- The Commission shall submit an Interim Report no later
than September 30, 2002. The Interim Report shall describe
the Commission's examination of:
- available research and information on the effectiveness
of
current practices at the local, State, and Federal levels
in
closing the educational achievement gap for Hispanic Americans
and attaining the goals established by the President's "No
Child
Left Behind" educational blueprint;
- available research and information on the effectiveness
of
current practices involving Hispanic parents in the
education of
their children; and
- the appropriate role of Federal agencies? education
programs in helping Hispanic parents successfully
prepare their
children to graduate from high school and attend post secondary
institutions.
- The Commission shall issue a Final Report no later than
March 31, 2003. The Final Report shall set forth the Commission's
recommendations regarding:
- a multi-year plan, based on the data collected concerning
identification of barriers to and successful models for
closing the educational achievement gap for Hispanic Americans,
that provides for a coordinated effort among parents, community
leaders, business leaders, educators, and public officials
at the
local, State, and Federal levels to close the
educational achievement gap for Hispanic Americans and
ensure attainment of the goals established by the President's "No
Child
Left Behind" educational blueprint.
- the development of a monitoring system that measures
and
holds executive branch departments and agencies accountable
for
the coordination of Federal efforts among the designated
executive departments and agencies to ensure the participation
of
Hispanic Americans in Federal education programs and
promote high-quality education for Hispanic Americans;
- the identification of successful methods employed
throughout the Nation in increasing parental, State and
local, private sector, and community involvement in improving
education for Hispanic Americans;
- ways to improve on and measure the effectiveness
of Federal agencies? education programs in ensuring that
Hispanic Americans close the educational achievement gap
and attain the goals established by the President's "No Child Left Behind" educational
blueprint; and
- how Federal Government education programs can best
be applied to ensure Hispanic parents successfully prepare
their children to attend post secondary institutions.
Section 8. The Commission shall terminate 30 days
after submitting its final report, unless extended by the President.
Section 9. Executive Order 12900 of February 22,
1994, as amended, is revoked.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 12, 2001.
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