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Monday, February 06, 2006
PARTly Sunny, PARTly Cloudy
With the release of the White House's budget submission comes, of course, the latest PART scores. In an effort to be tech-fancy, OMB created a new website, ExpectMore.Gov, to feature PART assessments. Only the homepage was working this morning, and now the pieces that are working are either not completely functional or spotty, taking you sometimes to data and other times to the 404-error page.
Techie stuff aside, it's interesting to observe that OMB has simultaneously made PART info both MORE and LESS accessible. More accessible: the new database format makes it easier to narrow the universe of information and zoom in on just the program you are concerned about. Less accessible: the database has completely replaced the comprehensive information that the White House used to publish, which would allow you to get an overview of PART and look across the entire universe of information for broader patterns. Click here and here for the documents from past years that are now no longer available. (At least the spreadsheet is still available.)
Posted by Robert Shull
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