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United States Department of Education

United States Department of Education
Government Agency
Agency nameUnited States
Department of Education
Agency overview
FormedOctober 17, 1979
Preceding
agencies		United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
United States Office of Education
Employees5,000 (2007)
JurisdictionFederal government of the United States
Annual budgetUS$32 billion (2009)
US$56 billion (est. 2010)
US$71 billion (est. 2011)
ARRA Funding:
US$102 billion (2009)
US$51 billion (est. 2010)
US$23 billion (est. 2011)
Operational structure
Agency executivesArne Duncan, Secretary
Anthony W. Miller, Deputy Secretary
Child agencyClick here

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The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Created by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 16, 1980.

The Department of Education Organization Act divided the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Education is administered by the United States Secretary of Education.

It is by far the smallest Cabinet-level department, with about 5,000 employees. The agency's official acronym is ED (and not DOE, which refers to the United States Department of Energy). It is also often abbreviated informally as DoED.

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May 1982 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The Greensboro massacre took place on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest. It was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party (known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization at the time of the shooting) to organize mostly black industrial workers in the area. The marchers killed were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who had given up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a graduate of the Harvard University School of Divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families. Operation Midnight Climax was an operation initially established by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of Narcotics Bureau officer George Hunter White under the alias of Morgan Hall for the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKULTRA, the CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. The project consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA <b>...</b>
8.47 min. | 4.83 user rating		 May 1982 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Bobby R. Inman (born 4 April 1931 in Rhonesboro, Texas) is a retired United States admiral who held several influential positions in the US Intelligence community. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. Inman held this post until 1981. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Inman has been influential in various advisory roles. Notably, he chaired a commission on improving security at US foreign installations after the Marine barracks bombing and the April 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. The commission's report has been influential in setting security design standards for US Embassies. After retirement from the Navy, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas for four years and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company for three years. Admiral Inman also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990. Admiral Inmans primary activity since 1990 has been investing in start-up technology companies <b>...</b>
10.02 min. | 4.11 user rating		 DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. During shot "Wasp", ground forces took part in Exercise Desert Rock VI which included an armored task force "Razor" moving to within 900 meters of ground zero, under the still-forming mushroom cloud. The Civil Defense "Apple-2" shot on May 5, 1955 was intended to test various building construction types (nicknamed as "Survival Town") in a nuclear blast. A few of the buildings still stand at Area 1, Nevada Test Site. A documentary film was produced showing the buildings being damaged by the blast; in the film, the test is called "Operation Cue". Stock footage from the nuclear test was used in the 1983 TV movie The Day After during the explosion sequence. An augmented test unit from the United States Marine Corps participated in Shot "Bee" during the March 1955 exercises. This series preceded Wigwam and followed Operation Castle. The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site, established on 11 January 1951, for the testing of nuclear devices, is composed of approximately 1360 sq mi (3500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test <b>...</b>
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US, China identify steps to further education cooperation - Xinhua Tweet this news
Xinhua--WASHINGTON, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The -United States- and China on Tuesday identified steps to further cooperation on -education-, an area in which the US State -Department- said the two countries have a "robust" relationship. The - Date : Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:57:45 GMT+00:00
Education Department rules should help, not hurt, students - The Hill (blog) Tweet this news
The Hill (blog)--04/12/11 09:39 AM ET In his first State of the Union address, President Obama proclaimed that, by 2020, the -United States- would once again lead the world in college graduates. However, despite the president's ambitious goals, the - - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:15:17 GMT+00:00
Black leaders want school standards revised - Topeka Capital Journal Tweet this news
Topeka Capital Journal--"As it's taught now, black history doesn't cover the totality of the experiences brought by African-Americans in Kansas and in the -United States-. It's not enough, and it's not sufficient. It's no - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:36:14 GMT+00:00
Students to see small increase in the price of school lunch next year - Worthington Daily Globe Tweet this news
Worthington Daily Globe--Due to the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 signed into law by President Obama, the government will require school districts to raise its lunch prices to comply with the -Department of Education- and USDA (-United States- - Date : Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:48:40 GMT+00:00
Pell Grants likely to remain in place with new federal budget - UM Maneater Tweet this news
UM Maneater--With the -United States- congressional agreement on a federal budget for the remainder of 2011 comes news that Pell Grants will likely remain intact for the year. According to the -Department of Education's- website, the Federal Pell ... - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:03:59 GMT+00:00
Schools facing rise in homeless students - Christian Science Monitor Tweet this news
Christian Science Monitor--According to the San Diego County Office of -Department of Education-, there were 13204 homeless students countywide during the 2009-2010 academic year. Joel Garcia, co-principal at Monarch School says the school has seen about - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:03:17 GMT+00:00
5 Things To Know Today: Tuesday, April 12 - Patch.com Tweet this news
Patch.com--On this day 150 years ago, the -United States- Civil War officially began. Interested in a follow-up to this article? Great, we'll send you an email as soon as a follow-up is published! Town meetings, community events, fun facts and the we - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:10:45 GMT+00:00
Hawaii Children More Needy, But Fewer Social Workers At School To Help - Honolulu Civil Beat Tweet this news
Honolulu Civil Beat--The -United States Department of Education- recommends that school districts maintain a ratio of one social worker for every 800 students. But last year, the Department of Education laid off six of its 69 school-level social workers, - Date : Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:23:06 GMT+00:00
New study with FSU researcher, local teachers aims to help student's reading ... - Tallahassee Democrat (blog) Tweet this news
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)--As part of a national research initiative sponsored by the -United States Department of Education-, FSU and five teachers from Leon County have been given $1.5 million and 5 years to complete instructional material that will i - Date : Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:21:59 GMT+00:00
State Board of Education addresses faulty textbooks - Fredericksburg.com (blog) Tweet this news
Fredericksburg.com (blog)--The books, “Our Virginia: Past and Present,” a grade-4 Virginia studies text, and “Our America to 1865,” a grade-5 -United States- history book, were found by a panel of historians last fall to include significant factua - Date : Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:21:37 GMT+00:00

United States federal executive departments

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|Past departments: Commerce and Labor * Health, Education, and Welfare * Navy * Post Office * War
Past departments: Commerce and Labor * Health, Education, and Welfare * Navy * Post Office * War

Agencies under the United States Department of Education

Secretary of EducationOffice for Civil Rights * Institute of Education Sciences
Deputy Secretary of EducationOffice of Safe and Drug Free Schools * Office of Innovation and Improvement * Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services * Office of English Language Acquisition * Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Under Secretary of EducationOffice of Federal Student Aid * Office of Vocational and Adult Education * Office of Postsecondary Education * White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
ProgramsNational Center for Education Statistics * National Library of Education * National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research * Office of Migrant Education * Education Resources Information Center * National Assessment of Educational Progress
Independent OrganizationsAdvisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance * National Institute for Literacy * National Assessment Governing Board * National Board for Education Sciences * White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities * White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans



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