DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202 Phone, 800–USA–LEARN (toll free). Internet, www.ed.gov.

SECRETARY OF EDUCATION RODERICK R. PAIGE Chief of Staff ANNE RADICE Director, Office of Public Affairs JOHN GIBBONS General Counsel BRIAN W. JONES Inspector General JOHN P. HIGGINS, JR. Assistant Secretary for Legislation and KAREN JOHNSON Congressional Affairs Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and LAURIE M. RICH Interagency Affairs Deputy Secretary EUGENE HICKOK Chief Financial Officer JACK MARTIN Chief Information Officer WILLIAM LEIDINGER Assistant Secretary for Management WILLIAM LEIDINGER Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights KENNETH MARCUS, Acting Chief Operating Officer for Federal THERESA A. SHAW Student Aid Under Secretary EDWARD R. MCPHERSON Director, Institute of Education Sciences GROVER J. WHITEHURST Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary SALLY STOUP Education Assistant Secretary for Special Education (VACANCY) and Rehabilitative Services Assistant Secretary for Vocational and SUSAN SCLAFANI Adult Education Director, Office of English Language MARIA H. FERRIER Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students Deputy Under Secretary, Office of Safe DEBORAH PRICE and Drug Free Schools Deputy Under Secretary, Office of NINA SHOKRAII REES Innovation and Improvement

The Department of Education establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most Federal assistance to education. Its mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation.

The Department of Education was Secretary The Secretary of Education created by the Department of Education advises the President on education plans, Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3411) and policies, and programs of the Federal is administered under the supervision Government and serves as the chief and direction of the Secretary of executive officer of the Department, Education. coordinating and overseeing all 204

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Department activities, providing support known as Title IV. These programs and encouragement to States and include the William D. Ford Federal localities on matters related to Direct Loan, Federal Family Education education, and focusing the resources of Loan, Federal , Federal the Department and the attention of the Supplemental Educational Opportunity country on ensuring equal access to Grant, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal education and promoting educational Work-Study, Leveraging Educational excellence throughout the Nation. Assistance Partnership, and Special Leveraging Educational Assistance Activities Partnership. These programs are the Institute of Education Sciences The largest source of student aid, providing a Institute of Education Sciences was total of approximately $60 billion in formally established by Education total new aid to nearly 9 million Sciences Reform Act 2002. The Institute postsecondary students in fiscal year includes national education centers 2003. FSA also manages or oversees focused on research, statistics, and approximately $321 billion in evaluation, and is the mechanism outstanding loans representing over 22 through which the Department supports million borrowerers. the activities needed to improve Innovation and Improvement The education policy and practice. Office of Innovation and Improvement Elementary and Secondary Education (OII) oversees competitive grant The Office of Elementary and Secondary programs that support the trial of Education directs, coordinates, and innovations in the educational system formulates policy for the Department’s and disseminates the lessons learned activities relating to early childhood, from these trials. OII administers, elementary, and secondary education. coordinates, and recommends policy for Included are grants and contracts to improving the quality of programs and State educational agencies and local activities designed to support and test school districts, postsecondary schools, innovations throughout the K-12 system and nonprofit organizations for the in areas such as alternate routes to education of disadvantaged, migrant, certification, traditional teaching of and Indian children; enhancement of American history, dropout prevention, State student achievement assessment and arts in education. The Office also systems; improvement of reading encourages the establishment of charter instruction; impact aid; technology; and schools through planning, start-up after-school learning programs. The funding, and approaches to credit Office also focuses on providing children enhancement for charter school facilities. with the readiness skills and support they The expansion of parental options and need in early childhood so they are information is encouraged through ready to learn when they enter school alternatives including magnet schools, and on improving the quality of teachers public school choice, and non public and other instructional staff. education, and by working with English Language Acquisition The community organizations to inform Office of English Language Acquisition, parents of their options. In this role, the Language Enhancement, and Academic Office serves as the Department’s liaison Achievement for Limited English and resource to the non public Proficient Students provides national educational community. In addition, OII leadership in promoting high-quality oversees the Family Policy Compliance education and academic success for the Office and manages the Fund for the Nation’s population of English language Improvement of Education. learners. Postsecondary Education The Office of Federal Student Aid The Office of Postsecondary Education formulates Federal Student Aid (FSA) manages and policy and directs and coordinates administers the postsecondary student programs for assistance to postsecondary financial assistance programs, commonly educational institutions and students

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pursuing a postsecondary education. provides leadership to ensure that people Programs include assistance for the with disabilities have services, resources, improvement and expansion of and equal opportunities to learn, work, American educational resources for and live as fully integrated, contributing international studies and services, grants members of society. OSERS supports to improve instruction in crucial programs that serve millions of children, academic subjects, and construction youth, and adults with disabilities. It assistance for academic facilities. coordinates the activities of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools The Office Special Education Programs in of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) administering IDEA (the Individuals with administers, coordinates, and Disabilities Act), which works to help recommends policy for improving drug States provide quality early intervention and violence prevention programs. services and educational opportunities to OSDFS, in partnership with State and help infants, toddlers, children, and local educational agencies and public youth with disabilities achieve their and private nonprofit organizations, goals. OSERS supports State vocational supports and provides funding for efforts rehabilitation and independent living to create safe schools, respond to crises, programs that give people with prevent drug and alcohol abuse, ensure disabilities the education, job training, the health and well-being of students, and job placement services they need to and teach students good citizenship and gain meaningful employment and character. The Office coordinates independent lives. It supports research Department efforts in these areas with and technological programs that are other Federal agencies and also leads the crafting blueprints for a barrier-free, Department of Education’s homeland inclusive society. OSERS supports security efforts. OSDFS also participates Gallaudet University, the National in the formulation and development of Technical Institute for the Deaf, the program policy, legislative proposals, American Printing House for the Blind, and developing administration policies and the Helen Keller National Center. related to violence and drug prevention. Vocational and Adult Education The The Office drafts program regulations, Office of Vocational and Adult advises the Secretary on the formulation Education administers grant, contract, of comprehensive school health and technical assistance programs for education policy, and develops a vocational-technical education and for national research agenda with other adult education and literacy. Federal agencies. OSDFS also Regional Offices Each regional office administers the Department’s character, serves as a center for the dissemination citizenship, and civic education of information and provides technical programs and gives guidance on assistance to State and local educational correctional education issues and agencies and other institutions and provides financial assistance to States individuals interested in Federal and local entities implementing educational activities. Offices are located correctional education programs. in Boston, MA; New York, NY; Special Education and Rehabilitative Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, Services The Office of Special Education IL; Dallas, TX; Kansas City, MO; Denver, and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) CO; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.

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President TUCK TINSLEY III Chairman of the Board W. JAMES LINTNER, JR.

The American Printing House for the teaching aides such as tests and Blind (APH) produces and distributes performance measures, and other special educational materials adapted for supplies. The materials are distributed students who are legally blind and through allotments to the States to enrolled in formal educational programs programs serving individuals who are below the college level. Materials blind. produced by APH include textbooks in For further information, contact the American braille and large type, educational tools Printing House for the Blind, P.O. Box 6085, such as braille typewriters and Louisville, KY 40206. Phone, 502–895–2405. microcomputer software and hardware, Internet, www.aph.org.

Gallaudet University 800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002 Phone, 202–651–5000. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.

President, Gallaudet University I. KING JORDAN Chairman, Board of Trustees GLENN B. ANDERSON

Gallaudet University received its Federal of Educational Administrators of Schools charter in 1864 and is currently and Programs for the Deaf. authorized by the Education of the Deaf Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Act of 1986, as amended. Gallaudet is a Center Gallaudet’s Laurent Clerc private, nonprofit education institution National Deaf Education Center operates providing elementary, secondary, two Federally funded elementary and undergraduate, and continuing education secondary education programs on the programs for persons who are deaf. The main campus of the University, the University offers a traditional liberal arts Kendall Demonstration Elementary curriculum for students who are deaf, School and the Model Secondary School and graduate programs in fields related to deafness for students who are deaf for the Deaf. These programs are and students who are hearing. Gallaudet authorized by the Education of the Deaf also conducts a wide variety of basic Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4304, as and applied deafness research and amended October 7, 1998) for the provides public service programs for primary purpose of developing, persons who are deaf and professionals evaluating, and disseminating model who work with persons who are deaf. curricula, instructional techniques and Gallaudet University is accredited by a strategies, and materials that can be used number of accrediting bodies, among in a variety of educational environments which are the Middle States Association serving individuals who are deaf and of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the individuals who are hard of hearing National Council for Accreditation of throughout the Nation. The Education of Teacher Education, and the Conference the Deaf Act requires the programs to

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include students preparing for Kendall Demonstration Elementary postsecondary opportunities other than School The school college and students with a broad became the Nation’s first demonstration spectrum of needs, such as students who elementary school for the deaf by act of are lower achieving academically, come December 24, 1970 (20 U.S.C. 695). from non-English-speaking homes, have This act was superseded by the secondary disabilities, are members of Education of the Deaf Act of 1986. The minority groups, or are from rural areas. school is a day program serving students Model Secondary School for the Deaf from the Washington, DC, metropolitan The school was established by act of area from the age of onset of deafness to October 15, 1966 (20 U.S.C. 693), age 15, inclusively, but not beyond the which was superseded by the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986. The school eighth grade or its equivalent. provides day and residential facilities for For further information, contact the Public secondary aged students from across the Relations Office, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida United States from grades 9 through 12, Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002. Phone, 202– inclusively. 651–5505. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.

Howard University 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC 20059 Phone, 202–806–6100. Internet, www.howard.edu.

President H. PATRICK SWYGERT

Howard University was established by studies; terrestrial and extraterrestrial act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 438). It atmospheric studies; aerospace science offers instruction in 12 schools and and technology; the W. Montague Cobb colleges, as follows: the colleges of arts Human Skeletons Collection; drug and sciences; dentistry; engineering, abuse; science, space, and technology; architecture, and computer sciences; African-American resources; cancer; medicine; and pharmacy, nursing, and allied health sciences; the graduate child development; computational school; the schools of business; science and engineering; international communications; divinity; education; affairs; sickle cell disease; and the law; and social work; and a summer national human genome project. school. In addition, Howard University For further information, contact the Office of has research institutes, centers, and University Communications, Howard University, special programs in the following areas: 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC 20059. disability and socioeconomic policy Phone, 202–806–0970. Internet, www.howard.edu.

National Institute for Literacy Suite 730, 1775 I Street NW., Washington, DC 20006 Phone, 202–233–2025

Director SANDRA L. BAXTER, Acting

The National Institute for Literacy leads America. By building and strengthening the national effort towards a fully literate national, regional, and State literacy

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infrastructures, the Institute fosters and basic skills services necessary to collaboration and innovation. Its goal is achieve success in the workplace, to ensure that all Americans with literacy family, and community. needs receive the high-quality education

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology

52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623 Phone, 716–475–6853 (voice/TDD). Internet, www.ntid.edu.

President, Rochester Institute of Technology ALBERT J. SIMONE Vice President, National Technical Institute for T. ALAN HURWITZ the Deaf

The National Technical Institute for the Rochester Institute of Technology. Deaf (NTID) was established by act of Students who are deaf that enroll in June 8, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 681) to promote NTID or RIT programs are provided a the employment of persons who are wide range of support services and deaf, by providing technical and special programs to assist them in professional education. The National preparing for their careers, including Technical Institute for the Deaf Act was tutoring, counseling, note-taking, superseded by the Education of the Deaf interpreting, specialized educational Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4431, as media, cooperative work experience, amended October 7, 1998). The and specialized job placement. Both RIT Department of Education maintains a and NTID are accredited by the Middle contract with the Rochester Institute of States Association of Colleges and Technology (RIT) for the operation of a Secondary Schools. residential facility for postsecondary NTID also conducts applied research technical training and education for in occupational- and employment- individuals who are deaf. The purpose of related aspects of deafness, the special relationship with the host communication assessment, the institution is to provide NTID and its demographics of NTID’s target students access to more facilities, population, and learning processes in institutional services, and career postsecondary education. In addition, preparation options than could be NTID conducts training workshops and otherwise provided by a national seminars related to deafness. These technical institute for the deaf standing workshops and seminars are offered to alone. NTID offers a variety of technical professionals throughout the Nation who programs at the certificate, diploma, and employ, work with, teach, or otherwise associate degree levels. Degree programs serve persons who are deaf. include majors in business, engineering, For further information, contact the Rochester science, and visual communications. In Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Department of Recruitment and addition, NTID students may participate Admissions, Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, 52 in approximately 200 educational Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623–5604. programs available through the Phone, 716–475–6700. Internet, www.ntid.edu.

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Sources of Information

Inquiries on the following information Employment Inquiries and applications may be directed to the specified office, for employment, and inquiries regarding Department of Education, 400 Maryland the college recruitment program, should Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202. be directed to the Human Resources Contracts and Small Business Activities Group. Phone, 202–401–0553. Call or write the Office of Small and Organization Contact the Executive Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Office, Office of Management. Phone, Phone, 202–708–9820. 202–401–0690. TDD, 202–260–8956.

For further information, contact the Information Resources Center, Department of Education, Room 5E248 (FB–6), 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202. Phone, 800–USA–LEARN. Internet, www.ed.gov.

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