Volunteer Efforts Spark Push For Public Service Academy: Washington Post
"What a great way to elevate in the public's mind the worthiness of these types of professions," said Raymond, now a partner in a Houston law firm. "It allows people to see that public service is valued by this country, and that in some ways it is as important as serving your country through the military."At the moment, the service academy is little more than a Web site ( http://www.uspublicserviceacademy.org ) and a 15-page proposal that Asch and Raymond are shopping to kindred spirits in politics, academia, and the nonprofit and business worlds. They hope to assemble a broad-based group of backers, then pitch the idea to Congress, most likely early next year, Raymond said.The concept is not new. George Washington proposed the idea of a national university in his first State of the Union speech, Asch said. In the late 1980s, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker led a commission on public service that developed a similar recommendation.
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