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October 6, 2008
Chief Financial Officer Is Leaving U.S. Education Department
Washington — The Education Department’s chief financial officer, Lawrence A. Warder, is getting a little head-start on the rush of Bush-administration appointees returning home to Texas.
With a little more than three months remaining in the administration’s term, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced today that Mr. Warder would leave the department on Friday. Mr. Warder has served since July 2006 as the department’s chief financial officer and since June 2007 as acting chief operating officer of its division of Federal Student Aid.
Mr. Warder had a 36-year career in the private sector, most of that with Deloitte Consulting. He took charge of the Education Department’s student-aid unit after the resignation of Theresa S. Shaw during a period of heavy criticism led by the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, of the financial links between lenders and administrators at colleges who recommended those lenders to their students.
Ms. Shaw began serving this past August as chief operating officer at the Educational Credit Management Corporation, which has a contract to handle electronic-records management for the student-loan unit she previously headed at the Education Department.
In a letter today to the staff of the student-aid division, Mr. Warder thanked his colleagues for helping the department “to successfully navigate a number of challenging situations,” including the economic troubles facing student-loan companies and the use by lenders of a loophole in federal law to extract an estimated $1.2-billion in disputed government subsidies.
James F. Manning, a career federal employee serving as deputy chief operating officer of Federal Student Aid, will become the new acting chief operating officer, Ms. Spellings announced. Thomas P. Skelly, director of budget service, will assume the authority of the position of the department’s chief financial officer, and Danny A. Harris, deputy chief financial officer, will serve as chief information officer, Ms. Spellings said. —Paul Basken
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Ms Shaw earned great bonuses for just being there.She did not care enough about defaulted students to even try to find them beyond a skip. What did Manning get?
— Charles Oct 7, 09:23 AM #
Over the next few months the inmates will increasingly be in charge and we will all be better off for it.
— heartland Oct 7, 09:54 AM #
I personally met with Ms. Shaw at the direction of previous Congressman Clay Shaw. Ms. Shaw showed no apparent interest in our companies ability to guarentee an 80% success of locating their Missing Student Debtors. Shouldn’t this make someone at least slightly interested in a solution to this massive problem???
— Carl D Mac Bride Oct 7, 10:39 AM #