Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is a division of the United States Department of Education

United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...

. Its purpose is to promote academic excellence, enhance educational opportunities and equity for all of America's children and families, and to improve the quality of teaching and learning by providing leadership, technical assistance, and financial support.

Responsibilities

The Office is responsible for directing, coordinating, and recommending policy for programs designed to:

• Assist State and local educational agencies to improve the achievement of elementary and secondary school students.

• Help ensure equal access to services leading to such improvement for all children, particularly children who are educationally disadvantaged, Native American, children of migrant workers, or homeless.

• Foster educational improvement at the State and local levels.

• Provide financial assistance to local educational agencies whose local revenues are affected by Federal activities.

Organization

The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is under the supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, who reports to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. The Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education serves as principal adviser to the Secretary of Education on all matters related to elementary and secondary education. The current Assistant Secretary is Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana who was appointed on July 24, 2009.

The Office includes 6 Departments:

• Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs
  Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs
  Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs is an office of the US Dept of Education that administers programs of financial assistance to State and local education agencies and to colleges and universities...
  
  

• Office of Migrant Education
  Office of Migrant Education
  The Office of Migrant Education is a program within the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education that administers grant programs that provide academic and supportive services to the children of families who migrate to find work in the agricultural and fishing...
  
  

• Impact Aid Programs

• Office of Indian Education

• School Support and Technology Programs

• Academic Improvement and Teacher Quality Programs