Duncan arrived in Washington in January with a reputation as an aggressive education reformer from serving as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools for more ...
A relative unknown in the policy world, Miller has been informally advising Arne Duncan since the beginning of the new administration. Miller's professional expertise is ...
As undersecretary, community college leader Martha Kanter, 60, would be the first two-year institution leader to ascend to such a high position in the department ...
"Education is the civil-rights issue of our time," Ali says. Her new post is a good fit for her interests. The office is charged with ...
Cunningham oversees more than 100 staffers in presenting the Education Department's agenda to the media and to those he calls the "key stakeholders" in education--parents, ...
Melendez's background as a classroom teacher, principal, and district official, combined with her school-reform work for leading education foundations should serve her well as assistant ...
Gomez's office is just a few blocks down Independence Avenue from the building where her previous boss--House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif.--works, ...
As the daughter of Irish immigrants, Martin grew up believing in the promise of education to achieve the American Dream. In her career, the 42-year-old ...
She may be white, but Rogers knows what it's like to be in the minority. As a child, her family relocated from Boston to rural ...
White grew up in Prince George's County, Md., and served as chief communications officer for the school system, but as a child he did not ...
Established: 1980
Address: 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-401-2000
2009 Budget: $134.8 billion
Employment: 4,295
Web Site: www.ed.gov
Functions: The Education Department provides financial assistance to state education agencies and local school districts; supplies grants and loans to college students; oversees programs for adult, occupational, disabled, and American Indian education; conducts education research; and compiles education statistics.
