Bush budget links performance to funding.

• Position: News Briefs - Departmental management graded using red, yellow and green traffic signals - Brief Article

Making good on a campaign promise to improve accountability, President Bush's proposed $2.13 trillion budget includes a plan to tie agency and program performance to funding. The administration devised a scoring system that uses green, yellow, and red traffic signals to grade departmental management--green for passing and red for failing. The president's budget conferred only one green--to the National Science Foundation for financial management--while singling out the best and worst performing...