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Who Needs a Public Service Academy?
Not everybody is excited about the idea of creating a U.S. Public Service Academy. Witness the following from an editorial yesterday in the Phoenix-based East Valley Tribune:
Move over, Air Force Academy. Make way, Annapolis. Watch out, West Point. If some in Congress get their way, there soon might be a National Public Service Academy, styled loosely (probably very loosely) on these older institutions, that will take America’s best and brightest and mold them into the federal uber-bureaucrats of the future. We shudder at the thought.
A better way to attract Americans to public service, the editorial argues, is to "overhaul the way the government operates, by clearing away red tape, reforming a civil service system that creates and protects deadwood, and instituting a pay structure that rewards real skills and real performance."
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
