20 U.S.C. § 3402 — Congressional declaration of purpose
submitted 47 years ago by Pub. L. 96-88 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 230 words · no verdicts yet
Congress says a Department of Education serves the public interest and lists purposes concerning equal opportunity, education quality, participation, coordination, efficiency, and accountability.
Congress declares that establishing a Department* of Education is in the public interest, promotes general welfare, gives education proper Federal treatment, and improves coordination. Its purposes are (1) strengthen equal educational opportunity; (2) supplement States, local systems, private sector and institutions, researchers, communities, parents, and students in improving education; (3) increase public, parent, and student involvement; (4) improve quality and usefulness through research, evaluation, and information sharing; (5) improve coordination; (6) improve management and efficiency, especially Federal-fund distribution and reducing unnecessary duplicative burdens and paperwork; and (7) increase accountability to the President, Congress, and public.
The Congress declares that the establishment of a Department* of Education is in the public interest, will promote the general welfare of the United States, will help ensure that education issues receive proper treatment at the Federal level, and will enable the Federal Government to coordinate its education activities more effectively. Therefore, the purposes of this chapter are—
to strengthen the Federal commitment to ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;
to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents, and students to improve the quality of education;
to encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs;
to promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information;
to improve the coordination of Federal education programs;
to improve the management and efficiency of Federal education activities, especially with respect to the process, procedures, and administrative structures for the dispersal of Federal funds, as well as the reduction of unnecessary and duplicative burdens and constraints, including unnecessary paperwork, on the recipients of Federal funds; and
to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–88, title I, § 102, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 670.)
- 1979Enacted · Pub. L. 96-88 · 93 Stat. 670
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