February 10, 2006

2 Staffers Who Championed Colleges to Leave Capitol Hill

By STEPHEN BURD

Colleges and low-income students are losing two powerful allies on Capitol Hill.

Jane Oates, a senior education adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, for the past eight years, is leaving her post in March to advise New Jersey's new governor, Jon S. Corzine, on higher-education issues.

Bill Lucia, a top Republican aide on the Senate Budget Committee, is leaving Congress this month after three years to become the Educational Testing Service's senior

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