Mary Cassell

Mary Cassell

Senior Program Examiner

Education Branch of the Office of Management and Budget

 

 

Mary Cassell is a Senior Program Examiner in the Education Branch of the Office of Management and Budget and a member of OMB’s Performance Evaluation Team (PET).  As a program examiner, she covers elementary and secondary education issues and federal programs that support the President’s No Child Left Behind initiative, including those that help disadvantaged students, improve reading, and fund after-school efforts.  As a member of the PET, Ms. Cassell helped design and implement the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), a tool that is used to rate and improve the performance of federal programs.

 

Before joining OMB in 1995, Ms. Cassell worked as a legislative aide for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce where she worked on the 1994 revisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that helped establish accountability and school improvement systems for public schools.  Ms. Cassell has a Master of Public Policy degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.