And so it goes...

It takes vigilance,” Justin Hamilton, spokesman for the Department of Education said. “We can never be in every university all the time, nor do we want to be. We want to trust the schools and believe that they are living up to their obligations, but when they’re not, we will act decisively, effectively and fairly.

We don’t watch the debates. We’re working,” Education Department spokesman Justin Hamilton said in an e-mail.

…The school, a few blocks outside Cantor’s district, was honored as a National Blue Ribbon School in 2011. Even so, its building “is in a serious state of disrepair,” Hamilton said, and to “step up and get into the next level of education … it really could use the type of funds the president is proposing.

“We closely monitor government contractors to ensure they are working in the best interests of students and taxpayers and, most importantly, that they are obeying the law,” said Justin Hamilton, a department spokesman.

“If we believe a contractor has violated the public trust and broken the law, that case will be referred to the inspector general for investigation,” he added.

Our regulations offer students and taxpayers the protection they deserve,” Justin Hamilton, a spokesman for the Education Department, said in an e-mail. “These student safeguards rest on a sound legal foundation.

I think CREW took the crazy-town exit off main street.

While it was reported in local media that the search was related to a defaulted student loan, that is incorrect. This is related to a criminal investigation,” [Justin Hamilton] said. “The Inspector General’s Office does not execute search warrants for late loan payments.

We’re reducing the reliance on high-stakes testing, saying you shouldn’t tie an entire evaluation to one test,” Mr. Hamilton said. “Some people may think a test is a test and there’s no distinction between a formative assessment and a summative assessment, but we disagree. We think we should be measuring student growth and learning, and this is information that parents and teachers want.

Justin Hamilton, press secretary for Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been quoted by Inside Higher Education as saying, “We’re cutting where we can so that we can invest where we must.” In the absence of the present measures, the maximum Pell Grant could decline by $2,500, he said adding that “That is financially unworkable and morally unacceptable.