A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

    FOR RELEASE                                Contact:  Jim Bradshaw     June 4, 1996                                         (202) 401-1576

David Frank Appointed Education's Director of Communications

David Frank, a former speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher and currently a public affairs special assistant at the U.S. Education Department, has been appointed by Secretary of Education Richard Riley to be the department's director of communications.

He replaces Kathryn Kahler, who has resigned to become director of communications at the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.

"David brings a wealth of public affairs experience to this position and we are fortunate to have someone of his caliber on our team," Riley said.

Frank has been at the department since 1994, handling communications on education funding issues, family involvement in children's learning and the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. He has also been a speechwriter for Riley.

Before joining the department, he wrote speeches and press statements for Christopher on a variety of foreign policy issues.

In the 1980s Frank worked as a staff associate for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, serving as a principal investigator into the U.S. real estate holdings of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in history. He later received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

After graduating from Stanford, Frank worked as a newspaper reporter for the Danvers Herald in Danvers, Mass.

He is a native of Bayonne, N.J., and is married with two children.