The evaluation office for the country's major children and family programs.
OPRE evaluates programs like Head Start, TANF, and child welfare, and has long been a federal model for rigorous evaluation.
Its evaluation work runs on contracts that get cut under budget pressure, and evidence ratings recently moved from career staff to political appointees.
Set joint research priorities with ASPE, link data with privacy protections and a bar on enforcement uses, and provide multi-year evaluation funding.