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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 ...
Edward Penfield poster promoting the Bureau of Education's United States School Garden Army (1918). The Office of Education, at times known as the Department of Education and the Bureau of Education, was a small unit in the Federal Government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1867 to 1972.
The United States secretary of education is a member of the president's Cabinet and is the fifteenth in the United States presidential line of succession. [4] This secretary deals with federal influence over education policy, and heads the United States Department of Education.
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of Education by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States.As of September 9, 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 12 nominees have been confirmed, 1 nominee is being considered by the Senate, 3 positions do not have nominees, and 1 appointment has been made that does not ...
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Public Education, and the head of such an agency may be a minister of education or secretary of education.
The independent federal Office of Education was created on March 2, 1867. [1] It became part of the U.S. Department of the Interior on July 1, 1889. The office (also known later as the Bureau of Education) was included in the Interior Department's Federal Security Agency when it was established on July 1, 1939. [1]
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; Finding aid authors: Vera Ekechukwu and Nan Lawler (1996). "Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Historical Collection". Prepared for the Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, AR.
In 2003, the department was abolished and a new bureau, the Education and Manpower Bureau (教育統籌局 abbreviated EMB) was formed. In July 2007, under newly re-elected Chief Executive Donald Tsang , the manpower portfolio was split away to the new Labour and Welfare Bureau , leaving this body as the Education Bureau. [ 1 ]