Question

Which of these responsibilities is performed by the US Department of Education?

Answer 1

enforcing anti-discrimination laws

Answer 2

The correct answers are A and D.

The Department of Education was created in the year 1980 and has 4,400 employees and a $68 billion budget.

The main goals of this department are :

- Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education. Distributing and monitoring these funds.

- Collecting data on American schools.

- Focusing national attention on key educational issues.

- Prohibiting discrimination and enforcing equal access to education to all individuals in the United States.

The Department of Education is not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards ( with the exception of the No Child Left Behind Act), this is left to state and local school districts. It does not establish school or colleges either. It does not run any schools or any school like institutions.