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The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...
This department's primary role is to create curriculum and programmes which promote character, arts, citizenship, moral education, and global awareness. [70] Its mission is to promote individual student excellence, encourage collaboration and discovery and challenge students to take responsibility, [ 71 ] equipping students with future-ready ...
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A narrower concept is human capital , the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. [ 3 ]
The Department of Education also distributes about $30 billion a year to low-income college students via the Pell grant program and manages the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio.
In the 95th Congress, the Senate passed S. Res. 4, which renamed the committee to be the Committee on Human Resources. However, the name was again changed in the 96th Congress by S. Res. 30 to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. On March 18, 1992, the committee’s jurisdiction was updated to include all of the areas listed below.
Department of Commerce and the Workforce, a merger of the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor proposed in 2011 and 2013 by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) in S. 1116 [39] [40] Department of Education and the Workforce, proposed by President Donald Trump as a consolidation of the Departments of Education and Labor [ 41 ]
The Department of Education Organization Act was signed into law in 1979 under the administration of 39th President Jimmy Carter, resulting in the creation of the cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education and renaming the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the modern day U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [8]
An HR manager is the title character in the 2010 Israeli film The Human Resources Manager, while an HR intern is the protagonist in 1999 French film Ressources humaines. The main character in the BBC sitcom dinnerladies, Philippa, is an HR manager. The protagonist of the Mexican telenovela Mañana es para siempre is a director of human resources.