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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 Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979.
- $68 billion (2016)
- October 17, 1979; 43 years ago
- 3912 (2018)
- Federal government of the United States
Feb 7, 2017 · Jimmy Carter's Debt to a Teachers Union. Public education existed well before 1980, but an unpopular President Carter wanted the nation's largest union on his side before an election....
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Oct 19, 2004 · Last Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004, marked the 25th anniversary of the day President Carter signed into law the bill creating the U.S. Department of Education. The story of how that vote came to be...
Sep 23, 2015 · It wasn’t Jimmy Carter who launched the first Department of Education: it was Andrew Johnson, and the year was 1867. The department was small, ambitious and astonishingly short-lived....
To increase human and social services, he created the Department of Education, bolstered the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to Government...
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His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education. The end of his presidency was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Education Organization Act Statement on Signing S. 210 Into Law. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248025