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}}The '''[[Department of Education]]''' is a [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]]-level department of the [[Federal government of the United States|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 [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health and Human Services]] by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President [[Jimmy Carter]] signed into law on October 17, 1979.<ref>{{USStatute|96|88|93|668|1979|10|17|S|210}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Kosar | first=Kevin R. | title=Department of Education Organization Act, 1979 | website=Federal Education Policy History | date=15 April 2011 | url=https://federaleducationpolicy.org/2011/04/15/department-of-education-organization-act-1979/ | access-date=2 May 2024}}</ref>

 

The Department of Education is administered by the [[United States Secretary of Education|United States secretary of education]]. It has 4,400 employees – the smallest staff of the Cabinet agencies– and a 2024 budget of $238 billion.<ref name="DOE-mission">{{Cite web |title=Agency Profile {{!}} U.S. Department of Education |url=https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-education?fy=2024 |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=www2.ed.gov}}</ref> The 2023 Budget was $274 billion, which included funding for children with disabilities ), pandemic recovery, early childhood education, [[Pell Grant]]s, [[Elementary and Secondary Education Act|Title I]], work assistance, among other programs. This budget was down from $637.7 billion in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-15 |title=What the New PISA Results Really Say About U.S. Schools|url=https://www.future-ed.org/what-the-new-pisa-results-really-say-about-u-s-schools/ |access-date=2024-11-14|website=future-ed.com |language=en}}</ref> Its official abbreviation is '''ED''' ("DOE" refers to the [[United States Department of Energy]]) but is also abbreviated informally as "DoEd".