May 21, 1999

Education Dept. Defends Its Year-2000 Readiness

By KENNETH MA

A Republican lawmaker expressed concern last week that the systems used by the Education Department to deliver federal student aid would be disrupted by the year-2000 computer problem.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, who heads the oversight panel of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, said at a hearing that he was not convinced that the department's computer system would be

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