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U.S. Department of Education
Margaret Spellings
Secretary

Office of the Deputy Secretary
Ray Simon
Deputy Secretary

Office of the Under Secretary
Ted McPherson
Under Secretary

Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Jack Martin
Chief Financial Officer

Office of Planning, Evaluation,
and Policy Development
Thomas Luce
Assistant Secretary

Strategic Accountability Service
Hugh Walkup
Director

November 15, 2005

This report is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education Fiscal Year 2005 Performance and Accountability Report, Washington D.C., 2005.

This report is available on the Department's web site in Acrobat PDF format at: http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/2005report/index.html.

A color print highlights document and interactive CD of the entire PAR will be available by January 2006.

The Department’s Strategic Plan is available on the Web at:  http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/strat/plan2002-07/index.html

Department annual plans and annual reports for past years are available on the Web at: http://www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/index.html

To request a copy of our Highlights Report in print, with CD of the full Fiscal Year 2005 Performance and Accountability Report, contact edpubs@inet.ed.gov.

To provide comments and suggestions on both the content and presentation of the report, contact PARcomments@ed.gov. or forward your comments to:

Strategic Accountability Service
U.S. Department of Education
Washington, D.C.
20202-0600

The following companies were contracted to assist in the preparation of the U.S. Department of Education Fiscal Year 2005 Performance and Accountability Report: