Department of Education Nomination of Carl William Fischer To Be Assistant Secretary for Budget and Planning.

The President today announced that he will nominate Carl William Fischer, of College Park, Md., to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Budget and Planning, a new position. Fischer has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Planning and Evaluation since 1979.

He was born August 4, 1931, in Pittsburgh, Pa. He received a B.A. from Muskingum College in 1953 and an M.P.A. from Harvard University in 1964.

Fischer was with the Office of Management and Budget and its predecessor agency, the Bureau of the Budget, from