The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet - level department of the United States government. Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96 - 88) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980.
when was the us department of education established
October 17, 1979