I'll get it started. It's time we fix this by getting rid of it, delicately.
Here's the facts:
Department of Education
~$65,000,000,000 annual cost
~4,200 employees
Here is the bureaucratic breakdown of the DoE
Office of the Secretary (OS)
- Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO)
- Office of the General Counsel (OGC)
- Office of Inspector General
- Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA)
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
- Institute of Education Sciences (IES) - $562 million (2008). 185 employees (2007)
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
- Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
- Office of Management
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
- Budget Service
- Risk Management Service
Chief Operating Officer
Office of the Under Secretary (OUS)
- Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
- Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) - $617.4 million annually. 100 employees.
- Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) - $27.975 billion budget annually. With this budget, FSA provided $90.5 billion in assistance to students, nearly three times its budget, because it leverages private loans through loan guarantees and some interest subsidies, and because it receives program income from loan repayments. 1,100 employees
- President's Advisory Board on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU)
- President's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (WHIHBCU)
Office of the Deputy Secretary (ODS)
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) - $16.6 billion (2009)
- Office of Migrant Education (OME)
- Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs (SASA)
- President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
- Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) - $255 million
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) - $14 billion annually
- National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
- Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
- Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
- Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS) - $693,404,000 (2008)
- Office of Innovation and Improvement - $1,299,000,000 (2008)
Associated federal organizations
- Advisory Councils and Committees
- National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)[4]
- National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)[5]
- Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE)
Federally aided organizations
- Gallaudet University
- Howard University
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf
According to USAspending.gov., the Department of Education has spent $10.4 billion this decade on private contractors. A total of 7,222 private companies and other organizations were paid by the department for testing equipment and materials ($1.06 billion), debt collection services ($950 million), ADP systems analysis ($729 million) and banking services ($670 million), among other goods and services.
In addition to spending money on contractors for services, ED allocates $90 billion annually for Federal Student Aid programs. Aside from the millions of college students who benefit, private lenders who participate in the programs receive substantial payments through loan fees, subsidized interest while students’ payments are deferred as they continue schooling and for six+ months afterward, and guaranteed payments in cases of default. SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae) is the largest student lender.
The Office of Indian Education (OIE) allocates millions each year in grants to local education agencies (LEAs). In 2008, there were 96 formula grants to LEAs worth $1.9 million.
In 2007, OIE awarded 45 professional development grants totaling more than $12 million. As well, the agency awarded 1,237 formula grants to local education agencies in 2007 that served 474,867 students.
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