The U.S. Department of Education is the office of the national government that builds up approach for, manages and facilitates most elected help to instruction. It helps the president in executing his training strategies for the country and in actualizing laws instituted by Congress. The Department's main goal is to serve America's understudies to advance understudy accomplishment and fostering so as to plan for worldwide aggressiveness instructive incredible and guaranteeing break even with access. 

In 2007-08, the Department's rudimentary and auxiliary school programs served around 55 million understudies (pre-K through evaluation 12) going to somewhere in the range of 100,000 state funded schools and 34,000 tuition based schools. Division programs likewise gave concede, advance and work-study help to around 10 million college students. 

At the point when Congress made the Department in 1979, it announced these reasons:

=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 instrumentality 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.

The essential elements of the Department of Education are to "set up approach for, control and facilitate most government help to training, gather information on US schools, and to uphold elected instructive laws with respect to security and social equality." The Department of Education does not build up schools or universities. 

Dissimilar to the frameworks of most different nations, training in the United States is profoundly decentralized, and the government and Department of Education are not intensely included in deciding educational program or instructive guidelines (with the late special cases of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Common Core State Standards Initiative). This has been left to state and neighborhood school regions. The nature of instructive organizations and their degrees is kept up through a casual private procedure known as accreditation, over which the Department of Education has no immediate open jurisdictional control. 

The Department's central goal is  to advance students  accomplishment and fostering so as to plan for worldwide aggressiveness instructive magnificence and guaranteeing measure up to access.Aligned with this mission of guaranteeing equivalent access to training, the Department of Education is an individual from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and works with government accomplices to guarantee legitimate training for destitute and runaway youth in the United States.