1.   The U.S. Department of Education (ED) and other federal agencies should distinguish between those few contracts and contractor employees requiring special scrutiny and the vast majority of contracts and contractor employees of whom no security screening need be required. 

2.   ED should not be permitted to redefine routine information about education as sensitive data requiring invasive “security clearances.”

3.   ED and other federal agencies should make their contractor employee security clearance policies easy to understand and easy to access via the World Wide Web.

4.   ED and other federal agencies should develop and publish criteria by which personal information about contractor employees will be judged, as well as information about who will be permitted to see such information, how long it will be kept, and how it will be safeguarded.