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Review your Department of Education Congressional Budget Justification $($CBJ$)$ for FY $2024,$ or equivalent budget justification, which should be available on its website. The material may be labeled something other than Congressional Budget Justification, for example, "Budget Request." Your agency$$s CBJ or budget request may be voluminous and$/$or involve many sub$-$organizations within it$.$

Should Department of Education not present a concise, combined CBJ or budget$-$in$-$brief$/$summary$/$highlights for the entire agency, select for this assignment a CBJ or section of the combined CBJ or a sub$-$organization in which you are interested. You may also prefer to focus on a component that interests you rather than the entire agency.

Did Department of Education or the component on which you are focusing provide the budget justification material called for in Circular A$-11,$ Part $2,$ section $51,$ "Basic Justification Materials?," especially subsection $51\mathrm{.}1,$ "General requirements"? At least for a major program or programs, discuss the strategies and resources requested and the evidence and arguments offered to support the resources requested; and the benefits that will result; and any material differences from prior fiscal years funding, if any?

In your judgment, would the argument in the CBJ convince a person reasonably knowledgeable about the agency and its programs, but skeptical, that the funding requested is justified? What positive results are asserted? What evidence does the agency provide in support of positive results asserted?

What are your agency$$s $$priority goals$($APGs$)?$ Does it participate in any cross$-$agency priority goals $($CAP$)$ goals?

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