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The department was originally proposed by Henry Barnard and leaders of the National Teachers Association (renamed the National Education Association).
With Betsy DeVos just confirmed as the new Secretary of Education, it's worth taking a look back at the events that led the creation of this cabinet-level department.
We wanted to know more about the history, so we called Alyson Klein of Education Week, and she started by pointing out that many of the Education Department's programs predate its...
On Oct. 17, 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter signed a law creating the U.S. Department of Education.
Congress established the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on May 4, 1980, in the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88 of October 1979). Under this law, ED's mission is to: Strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;
Since the creation of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, the federal Office of Education had been a small agency within HEW headed by a...
Although the Department is a relative newcomer among Cabinet-level agencies, its origins goes back to 1867, when President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first Department of Education. Its main purpose was to collect information and statistics about the nation's schools.
The original Department of Education was created in 1867 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems.
U.S. Department of Education, executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for carrying out government education programs. Established in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, it seeks to ensure access to education and to improve the quality of education nationwide.
President Andrew Jackson signed the legislation that created the department, which was to be a non-cabinet-level agency with a mission of improving American education by disseminating sound education information to local-and state-level authorities.