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Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request

CONTENTS

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Appropriations Language..............................................................................................................1

Analysis of Language Provisions and Changes............................................................................2

Amounts Available for Obligation..................................................................................................3

Obligations by Object Classification, Program Administration ......................................................4

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CARES Act (P.L. 116-136) .........................5

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260).........................6

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-02) ................................7

Summary of Changes ...................................................................................................................8

Authorizing Legislation................................................................................................................10

Appropriations History.................................................................................................................11

Significant Items in FY 2022 Appropriations Reports .................................................................12

Activities:

Salaries and Expenses...........................................................................................................17

Building Modernization ...........................................................................................................34

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employment by Office.....................................................................36

Summary of Budget Authority by Principal Office .......................................................................37

Account Summary Table.............................................................................................................38
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Appropriations Language

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Department of Education

Organization Act, including rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of 

three passenger motor vehicles, $548,000,000, of which up to $17,500,000, to remain available 

until expended, shall be available for relocation expenses, and for the renovation and repair of

leased buildings: 1 Provided that, from the amount in the preceding proviso, the Secretary may 

use up to $5,000,000 to support a commission on the future of the teaching profession that 

addresses the pressing needs of the field, including making the compensation of educators 

competitive with similarly educated professionals, together with providing for the collection and 

analysis of labor market data at the State and regional levels on gaps in educator salaries and 

overall compensation relative to professionals with similar qualifications, including education, 

skills, and experience.2 Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, none

of the funds provided by this Act or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the Department 

of Education available for obligation or expenditure in the current fiscal year may be used for 

any activity relating to implementing a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces the staffing 

level, or alters the responsibilities, structure, authority, or functionality of the Budget Service of 

the Department of Education, relative to the organization and operation of the Budget Service 

as in effect on January 1, 2018.3

NOTES

A full-year 2022 appropriation for this account was not enacted at the time the budget was prepared; therefore, 

the budget assumes this account is operating under the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2022 (Division A of P.L. 117-

43, as amended). The amounts included for 2022 reflect the annualized level provided by the continuing resolution.

Each language provision that is followed by a footnote reference is explained in the Analysis of Language 

Provisions and Changes document, which follows the appropriation language.
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Analysis of Language Provisions and Changes

Language Provision Explanation

1...of which up to $17,500,000, to remain 

available until expended, shall be available 

for relocation expenses, and for the 

renovation and repair of leased buildings:

This language sets aside non-expiring funds

to relocate staff and to renovate and repair

Department of Education occupied buildings.

2 Provided that, from the amount in the 

preceding proviso, the Secretary may use up 

to $5,000,000 to support a commission on 

the future of the teaching profession that 

addresses the pressing needs of the field, 

including making the compensation of 

educators competitive with similarly educated 

professionals, together with providing for the 

collection and analysis of labor market data 

at the State and regional levels on gaps in 

educator salaries and overall compensation

relative to professionals with similar 

qualifications, including education, skills, and 

experience.

This language allows the Secretary of 

Education to use up to $5,000,000 of 

appropriated funds to support a commission 

on the future of the teaching profession.

3 Provided, That notwithstanding any other 

provisions of law, none of the funds provided 

by this Act or provided by previous 

Appropriations Acts to the Department of 

Education available for obligation or 

expenditure in the current fiscal year may be 

used for any activity relating to implementing 

a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces 

the staffing level, or alters the 

responsibilities, structure, authority, or 

functionality of the Budget Service of the 

Department of Education, relative to the 

organization and operation of the Budget 

Service as in effect on January 1, 2018.

This language prohibits the use of any 

funding to reduce staffing, decentralize, or

change the structure, authority, 

responsibilities, functionality, or operation of 

the Department’s Budget Service as it 

existed on January 1, 2018.
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Amounts Available for Obligation

(dollars in thousands)

Appropriation and Adjustments 2021 2022 2023

Discretionary budget authority:

Appropriation $430,000 $430,000 $548,000

Supplemental, CARES (PL 116-136) 0 0 0

Supplemental, CRRSSA (PL 116-260) 15,000 0 0

Subtotal, discretionary appropriation 445,000 430,000 $548,000

Mandatory budget authority:

Supplemental, ARPA (PL 117-02) 15,000 0 0

Subtotal, mandatory appropriation 15,000 0 0

Total: discretionary and mandatory 

appropriation 460,000 430,000 548,000

Unobligated balance, start of year 6,791 22,094 6,758

Recovery of prior year obligations 0 0 0

Unobligated balance expiring -272 -1,995 0

Unobligated balance, end of year -22,0941 -6,7582 -8513

Total, Direct Obligations $444,425 $443,341 $553,907

1 FY 2021 Unobligated balance, end of year includes carryover for Building Modernization ($149,000), CRRSA Act 

($8.294 million), ARP Act ($11.656 million) and Hurricane Education Recovery Act (HERA) ($1.995 million). 2 FY 2022 Unobligated balance, end of year includes carryover for CRRSA Act ($2.225 million), and ARP Act ($4.533 

million). 3 FY 2023 Unobligated balance, end of year includes carryover for ARP Act ($851 thousand).
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Obligations by Object Classification, Program Administration

(dollars in thousands)

Object Class

2021

Actual 2022 Estimate

2023

Request

Change from 

2022 to 2023

11.10 Full-time permanent $185,183 $200,337 $239,152 $38,815

11.31 Full-time temporary 13,502 4,914 5,167 253

11.32 Part-time 1,588 287 300 13

11.33 Consultants 218 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 835 936 339 -597

11.52 Awards 3,616 4,138 4,738 600

11.8 Other compensation 45 0 0 0

Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 204,987 210,612 249,696 39,084

12.00 Benefits 71,042 75,602 90,129 14,527

12.13 Other Benefits 0 0 60 60

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 22 22 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 250 433 433 0

Subtotal, Benefits 71,292 76,057 90,644 14,587

21.00 Travel 753 1,323 3,408 2,085

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0 

23.10 Rental Payments to GSA 22,562 28,222 28,222 0

23.31 Communications 1,261 1,060 1,200 140

23.32 Postage/fees 160 130 200 70

Subtotal, 23 23,983 29,412 29,622 210

24.00 Printing & Reproduction 1,009 995 974 -21

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 959 3,039 4,062 1,023

25.21 Other Services 23,247 16,818 27,906 11,088

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 1,090 1,839 2,965 1,126

25.23 Field Readers 30 34 0 -34

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 18,630 16,393 16,264 -129

25.40 Operations/Maint of Facilities 0 0 0 0 

25.71 Operations/Maint of Equipment 867 1,142 1,098 -44

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 72,285 71,505 101,684 30,179

Subtotal, 25 117,108 110,770 153,979 43,209

26.00 Supplies 181 342 482 140

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 256 371 457 86

31.3 Other Equipment 1,687 95 8,643 8,548

Subtotal, 31 1,943 466 9,100 8,634

32.00 Building Alterations 8,282 23 10,095 10,072

41.10 Grants 190 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 0 0 0 0

Total, Obligations 429,728 430,000 548,000 118,000

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 276,279 286,669 340,340 53,671

Total, Non-Personnel 153,449 143,331 207,660 64,329
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CARES Act (P.L. 116-136)

(dollars in thousands)

Object 

class 

number Object Class

2021 

Actual 

2022 

Estimate

2023 

Request 

Change from 

2022 to 2023

11.10 Full-time permanent $146 $0 $0 $0 

11.31 Full-time temporary 1,842 0 0 0

11.32 Part-time 0 0 0 0

11.33 Consultants 0 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 96 0 0 0 

11.52 Awards 3 0 0 0 

11.8 Other compensation 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 2,087 0 0 0 

12.00 Benefits 542 0 0 0 

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 0 0 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Benefits 542 0 0 0 

21.00 Travel 0 0 0 0 

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0 

23.10 Rental Payments to GSA 0 0 0 0 

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0 

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 23 0 0 0 0 

24.00 Printing & Reproduction 0 0 0 0 

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other Services 1,330 0 0 0 

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 0 0 0 0 

25.23 Field Readers 0 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 99 0 0 0 

25.40 Operations/Maint of Facilities 0 0 0 0 

25.71 Operations/Maint of Equipment 0 0 0 0 

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 29 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 1,458 0 0 0 

26.00 Supplies 0 0 0 0 

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 0 0 0 0 

31.3 Other Equipment 0 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 31 0 0 0 0 

32.00 Building Alterations 0 0 0 0 

41.10 Grants 0 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 0 0 0 0

Total 

Row Total, Obligations 4,087 0 0 0 

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 2,629 0 0 0

Total, Non-Personnel 1,458 0 0 0
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260)

(dollars in thousands)

Object 

class 

number Object Class

 2021 

 Actual 

2022 

Estimate

2023 

Request 

Change from 

2022 to 2023

11.1 Full-time permanent $1,587 $0 $0 $0 

11.31 Full-time temporary 1,259 4,163 2,013 -2,150

11.32 Part-time 0 0 0 0

11.33 Consultants 0 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 140 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 2 0 0 0

11.8 Other compensation 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 2,988 4,163 2,013 -2,150

12.00 Benefits 542 0 0 0

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 0 0 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Benefits 542 0 0 0

21.00 Travel 90 0 0 0 

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0 

23.10 Rental Payments to GSA 0 0 0 0

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 23 0 0 0 0

24.00 Printing & Reproduction 8 0 0 0

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 2,537 0 0 0

25.21 Other Services 0 206 212 6

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 0 0 0 0 

25.23 Field Readers 0 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 528 8 0 -8

25.40 Operations/Maint of Facilities 0 0 0 0 

25.71 Operations/Maint of Equipment 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 0 1,692 0 -1,692

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 3.065 1,906 212 -1,694 

26.00 Supplies 21 0 0 0 

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 0 0 0 0

31.3 Other Equipment 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 31 0 0 0 0

32.00 Building Alterations 0 0 0 0

41.10 Grants 0 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 0 0 0 0

Total 

Row Total, Obligations 6,706 6,069 2,225 -3,844 

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 3,530 4,163 2,013 -2,150

Total, Non-Personnel 3,176 1,906 212 -1,694
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-02)

(dollars in thousands)

class 

number Object Class

2021 

Actual

2022 

Estimate

2023 

Request 

Change from 

2022 to 2023

11.10 Full-time permanent $455 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary 525 $4,996 $3,349 $-1,647

11.32 Part-time 4 0 0 9

11.33 Consultants 0 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 54 0 0 0 

11.52 Awards 0 0 0 0

11.8 Other compensation 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 1,036 4,996 3,349 -1,647 

12.00 Benefits 198 0 0 0

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 0 0 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Benefits 198 0 0 0

21.00 Travel 6 0 0 0 

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0 

23.10 Rental Payments to GSA 0 0 0 0 

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0 

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 23 0 0 0 0

24.00 Printing & Reproduction 0 0 0 0

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other Services 5 0 0 0

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 0 0 0 0 

25.23 Field Readers 0 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 90 2,127 334 -1,793 

25.40 Operations/Maint of Facilities 0 0 0 0 

25.71 Operations/Maint of Equipment 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 2,001 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 2,096 2,127 334 -1,793 

26.00 Supplies 6 0 0 0 

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 0 0 0 0 

31.03 Other Equipment 0 0 0 0 

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 31 0 0 0 0

32.00 Building Alterations 0 0 0 0

41.10 Grants 0 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 0 0 0 0

Total 

Row Total, Obligations 3,344 7,123 3,683 -3,440 

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 1,236 4,996 3,349 -1,647

Total, Non-Personnel 2,108 2,127 334 -1,793
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Summary of Changes

(dollars in thousands)

2022 $430,000

2023 548,000

Net Change +118,000

Increases: 2022 Base

Change 

from Base

Built in:

Increase in salaries and benefits primarily for increased FTE and 

a 4.6 percent pay raise. $285,627 +$53,535

Program:

Increase in transit benefits. 1,042 +136

Increase in travel per post COVID-19. 1,323 +2,085

Increase in communications. 1,060 +140

Increase in postage and fees. 130 +70

Increase in advisory and assistance services primarily for Data 

Analytic and Quality Assurance Support, and Data Governance 

Board and Infrastructure (DGBDGI). 3,039 +1,023

Increase in other services primarily for the Customer Service 

Center, space planning design and relocation, Shuttle bus 

service, equity data dashboard, Enterprise Data Repository 

Analytics, and Master data management solution, Enterprise 

Infrastructure Support Services, Enterprise Data Solutions for 

Support Efficiency and Modernization, and Privacy Safeguards. 16,818 +11,088

Increase in training primarily for continuous learning 

requirements. 1,839 +1,126

Increase in IT services and contracts primarily for Executive 

Secretary Correspondence Tracking System, Enterprise 

Cybersecurity Programs, IT Investment Management Support 

Services, Online Application System, PIVOT, EDFacts, 

Education Stabilization Funds Public Transparency Portal, and 

Education’s Central Automated Processing System, Contracts 

and Purchasing Support System. 68,997 +30,179
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Summary of Changes

(dollars in thousands)

Increases: 2022 base

Change 

from base

Program:

Increase in supplies. 342 +140

Increase in IT Equipment and software. 371 +86

Increases in Other Equipment for Furniture, Filing and 

Non-IT Office Equipment. 95 +8,548

Increase in building alterations for modernization 

projects in Headquarters offices in LBJ and PCP, and 

regional offices. 23 +10,072

Subtotal, increases +120,756

Decreases: 2022 base

Change 

from base

Program:

Decrease in printing. 995 -21

m Decrease in field readers. 34 -34

m Decrease in goods and services mainly due to

personnel security. 16,393 -129

Decrease in operations/maintenance of equipment. 1,142 -44

Subtotal, decreases -2,756

Net Change +118,000
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Authorizing Legislation

(dollars in thousands)

Activity

2022 Authorized 2022

Estimate

2023 Authorized 2023

Request

Salaries and Expenses (DEOA) Indefinite $430,000 Indefinite $530,500

Building Modernization (DEOA) Indefinite 0 Indefinite 17,500

Total appropriation 430,000 548,000
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Appropriations History

(dollars in thousands)

Year 

Budget 

Estimate 

to Congress

House 

Allowance Footnote

Senate 

Allowance FootnoteAppropriationFootnote

20141 430,605 N/A 422,917 422,917

20152 442,000 N/A 426,917 418,260

20163 474,089 410,000 391,326 432,000

20174 474,827 432,000 432,000 432,000

20185 429,066 287,157 430,000 430,000

20196 459,257 430,000 430,000 430,000

20207 447,000 424,000 430,000 430,000

2020 Supplemental, CARES Act8 0 0 0 8,000

20219 448,723 426,000 430,000 430,000

2021 Supplemental, CRRSA Act10 0 0 0 15,000

2021 Mandatory Supplemental11 0 0 0 15,000

202212 430,000 480,000 419,973 430,000

2023 548,000

1 The House allowance is shown as N/A because there was no Subcommittee action; Senate allowance reflects 

Committee action only.

2 The House allowance is shown as N/A because there was no Subcommittee action; Senate allowance reflects 

Senate Subcommittee action only. 3 The levels for House and Senate allowances reflect action on the regular annual 2016 appropriations bill, which 

proceeded in the 114th Congress only through the House Committee and Senate Committee.

4 The levels for the House and Senate allowances reflect Committee action on the regular annual 2017 

appropriations bill; the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017.

5 The level for the House allowance reflects floor action on the Omnibus appropriation bill; the Senate allowance 

reflects Committee action on the regular annual 2018 appropriations bill; the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2018 (P.L. 115-141). 6 The levels for the House and Senate Allowance reflect Committee action on the regular annual 2019 appropriations 

bill; the Appropriation reflects enactment of the Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and 

Education Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 115-245). 7 The Senate Allowance reflects the Chairman’s mark; the Appropriation reflects the Further Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2020 (P.L. 116-94). 8 The Appropriation reflects the supplemental funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 

(P.L. 116-136). 9 The level for the House allowance reflects subcommittee action. The level for the Senate Allowance reflects the 

Chairman’s mark; the Appropriation reflects Division H of the FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 

116-260). 10 The Appropriation reflects supplemental funds from Division M of the FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2021 (P.L. 116-260). 11 The Appropriation reflects the American Rescue Plan Act of FY 2021 (P.L. 117-2). 12 The House allowance reflects floor action on the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act; the Senate allowance 

reflects the Chairman’s mark; and the Appropriation reflects the annualized continuing resolution level.
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Significant Items in FY 2022 Appropriations Reports

FTE and Attrition Report

Senate: The Committee requests the Department continue to provide a report not later 

than 30 days after the conclusion of each quarter detailing the number of 

fulltime equivalent employees and attrition by principal office and 

appropriations account.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Advertising Contracts

House: The Committee directs the Department to include the following information in 

its fiscal year 2023 Congressional Budget Justification: Expenditures for fiscal 

year 2021 and expected expenditures for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, 

respectively, for (1) all contracts for advertising services; and (2) contracts for 

the advertising services of (I) socially and economically disadvantaged small 

business concerns (as defined in section 8(a)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 

U.S.C. 637(a)(4)); and (II) women- and minority-owned businesses

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Costs of IHEs/Open Data Formats 

House: The Department is encouraged to take necessary planning steps to facilitate 

the publication of any information that is publicly disclosed by the Department 

for the purpose of comparing IHEs, programs, and credentials (including their 

competencies) using open data standards, such as formats, schemas, and 

description languages. Such steps should enable public search and 

comparison through linked public data assets. The Department is further 

encouraged to submit a report to the Committees, within 120 days of 

enactment of this Act, outlining a plan for providing such data, including any 

challenges, barriers to implementation, as well as anticipated costs for IHEs 

and the Department.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Customer Service 

House: Committee directs the Secretary to develop standards to improve customer 

service and incorporate the standards into the performance plans required 

under 31 U.S.C. 1115. The Committee further directs the Department to 

include an update on the progress of these efforts in the fiscal year 2023 

Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. 
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Evidence-Based Grants and Policy

House: The Committee requests an update in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 

Budget Justification on implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-based 

Policymaking Act (P.L. 115–435) and implementation plans for the coming 

year. The Committee encourages the Secretary to develop guidance to ensure 

relevant participants and grantees are involved in the Department-wide 

process of prioritizing evidence needs, including participating in Department 

led evaluations. Consistent with program statutes, the Committee encourages 

the Secretary to ensure that evidence of effectiveness is a consideration in 

grant opportunities.

Response: The Department is continuing to use leading practices to implement the 

Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. The Department’s 

Learning Agenda, which is published together with the FY 2022 President’s 

Budget, was informed by public input and will be further developed as 

informed by the education community. The Department also continues to 

advance its data strategy to realize the full potential of data to improve 

education outcomes and lead the nation in a new era of evidence-based policy 

insights and data-driven operations. The Department is committed to using 

and building evidence through its grant programs and considers the 

appropriate approach to evidence as an important aspect to policy design in 

grant competitions. In addition, the Department provides technical assistance 

on the meaning of evidence in all of its programs, including formula grants. 

Impediments to First Generation Students Graduating 

House: Department to include an update in its fiscal year 2023 Congressional Budget 

Justification on barriers to first generation college students’ success and 

contributing factors that lead to first generation students not graduating from 

college or university.

Response: The Department is including an update on barriers to first generation college 

students’ success and contributing factors that lead to first generation students 

not graduating from college or university.

Investments In Impoverished Areas 

House: The Committee directs the Department to submit a report to the Committees 

on Appropriations on the percentage of funds allocated by all competitive 

grant programs in fiscal years 2019, 2020 and 2021 to serve K–12 students 

living in persistent poverty counties, as defined as a county that has had 20 

percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as 

measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent 

Small Area Income and Poverty estimates, or any territory or possession of 
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the United States, and high-poverty areas, as defined as any census tract with 

a poverty rate of at least 20 percent as measured by the 2014–2018 5-year 

data series available from the American Community Survey of the Census 

Bureau. The Department shall report this information to the Committees within 

90 days of such data being available and provide a briefing to the Committees 

not later than 180 days of enactment of this Act on how the Department is 

carrying out this directive. In the case of any competitive K–12 program for 

which at least 10 percent of the funds allocated were not allocated to 

persistent poverty counties or for which the percentage allocated to highpoverty areas in fiscal year 2020 or 2021 was less than the average 

percentage of Federal assistance allocated to high-poverty areas awarded 

under the program in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, such report and 

briefing shall explain why such a benchmark is unable to be met.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. 

Lead Testing and Remediation 

House: The Committee directs the Department to continue coordinating with EPA in 

disseminating new guidance and resources, assisting school systems seeking 

to remediate lead contamination in working with EPA, and sharing best 

practices among States and local school systems. The Committee requests 

that the Department report on ongoing efforts on these issues in the fiscal year 

2023 Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: While the Department has in the past engaged in one-time coordination and 

outreach activities with the EPA on the issues of lead testing and remediation 

in schools, it does not have the capacity or resources to carry out such 

activities on an ongoing basis. However, the Department will explore options 

for disseminating EPA guidance and best practices on lead testing and 

remediation in schools through one or more of its technical assistance centers 

or networks, to the extent that such dissemination is consistent with the 

mission and purpose of these technical assistance centers.

NCES Staffing

House: The Committee directs the Department to include an update in its fiscal year 

2023 Congressional Budget Justification outlining how the Department will 

increase staffing at NCES as well as an analysis of funding for IES staff in an 

appropriations account outside of the Program Administration account. 

Further, the Committee directs the Department to provide quarterly updates on 

its efforts to carry out the staffing plan.

Response: The Department is including an update on how the Department will increase 

staffing at NCES as well as an analysis of funding for IES staff in an 
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appropriations account outside of the Program Administration account. 

Quarterly updates on its efforts to carry out the staffing plan will be provided 

as requested. 

Performance Measures 

House: The Committee directs the Department to comply with title 31 of the United 

States Code, including the development of organizational priority goals and 

outcomes such as performance outcome measures, output measures, 

efficiency measures, and customer service measures. The Committee further 

directs the Department to include an update on the progress of these efforts in 

the fiscal year 2023 Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: The Department is reporting performance outcomes and establishing 

performance goals and other indicators through the combined release of the 

Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Performance Report and the Fiscal Year 2023 

Annual Performance Plan

Supporting Students with Disabilities 

House: The Committee directs the Department to include information detailing 

accommodations for educational media that are available to students with 

disabilities at Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in its fiscal year 2023 

Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. Information detailing 

accommodations for educational media that are available to students with 

disabilities at Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) is included in the 

Congressional Justification.

Women’s Colleges & Universities 

House: The Committee directs the Department to include, in its fiscal year 2023 

Congressional Budget Justification, information on the challenges women’s 

colleges and universities face and recommend how federal resources may be 

best allocated to ensure their resilience

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. Information on the challenges 

women’s colleges and universities face and recommend how federal 

resources may be best allocated to ensure their resilience is included in the 

Congressional Justification.
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ESEA Per Pupil Spending Reporting 

Senate: Committee requests an update on actions taken and planned to support the 

full implementation of this requirement in the fiscal year 2023 and future CJs.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. Information on actions taken 

and planned to support the full implementation of this requirement is included 

in the Congressional Justification.

Pooled Evaluation Authority 

Senate: The Committee requests that the Department provide a report to the 

Committee on the planned use of pooled evaluation funds under section 8601 

of the ESEA, consistent with the required plan under such section, not later 

than 15 days prior to any transfer of funds.

Response: The Department will provide a report to the Committee on the planned use of 

pooled evaluation funds under section 8601 of the ESEA not later than 15 

days prior to any transfer of funds.

Reorganization Plans 

Senate: The Committee recommendation continues all directives included in the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116–94) and the 

accompanying explanatory statement

Response: The Department will comply with this directive. 

Teaching Commission 

Senate: The Committee requests a briefing for the authorizing and appropriations 

committees of Congress on the structure, objectives, stakeholder engagement 

and selection criteria for commission membership, not later than 30 days prior 

to any obligation of funds or public notice related to the commission. 

Response: The Department will comply with this request.
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Salaries and Expenses

(Department of Education Organization Act)

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2023 Authorization: Indefinite

Budget Authority:

 2022

Estimate

2023

Request Change

Personnel Compensation and Benefits 

Costs $286,669 $340,340 +$53,671

Non-Personnel Costs 143,331 190,160 +46,829

Total 430,000 530,500 +100,500

FTE 1,556 1,762 +206

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Program Administration account provides a significant portion of the funding and staff to 

administer the Department's programs and activities in the following offices:

Program offices:

Office of Postsecondary Education

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic 

Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education

Institute of Education Sciences

Staff offices:

Office of the Secretary

Office of the Under Secretary

Office of the General Counsel

Office of Finance and Operations

Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development

Office of Communications and Outreach

Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Program offices are the front-line administrators of the Department’s programs, providing 

leadership and financial support for education programs assisting preschoolers; elementary,

secondary, and postsecondary students; and adults. Program offices are critical to managing 

the Department’s multi-billion dollar program budget through activities including grant making, 

grantee technical assistance, grant monitoring, and contract management. In addition, the 
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offices support research and demonstration projects to improve education and disseminate 

information on research findings and education statistics.

Staff offices provide the legal, management, and financial support needed to help the 

Department fulfill its mission. These offices are vital to the day-to-day operation of the 

Department and provide policy leadership and administration of key Departmental priorities.

Funding levels for the past 5 fiscal years were:

Fiscal Year (dollars in thousands) 

2018 $430,000

2019 430,000

2020 430,000

2020 CARES Act 8,000

2021 430,000

2021 CRRSA Act 15,000

2021 Mandatory ARP Act 15,000

2022 Estimate 430,000

FY 2023 BUDGET REQUEST

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $530.5 million for Salaries and Expenses, 

$100.5 million more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. Appropriations for the Program Administration account have not kept pace with 

inflation and increases in pay rates, physical and information technology (IT) security needs, 

and other Government requirements prompted by IT security breaches in other Federal 

agencies and the private sector. These required increases have been funded through staff and 

rent reductions. Unfortunately, staff levels are now at an unsustainable tipping point, while 

continued rent reductions require increased funding for necessary space renovation 

investments.

The chart below provides detail on the Program Administration request by type of cost.
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STAFFING AND COSTS SUMMARY

Staffing

The 2021 enacted level is $2 million lower than the 2016 appropriation for Program 

Administration. Over this same time period, the purchasing power of the Program 

Administration appropriation has decreased by $54 million due to government-wide pay and 

benefits increases. As the 10-year history of staffing chart shows below, the Department largely 

coped with this loss of purchasing power by decreasing staff by 315, or 17 percent, from 2016 to 

2021.

Program Administration FTE Usage (Fiscal Year 2014 – FY 2023)

FY 

2014

FY 

2015

FY 

2016

FY 

2017

FY 

2018

FY 

2019

FY 

2020

FY 

2021

FY 

2022 

Est.

FY 

2023 

Est.

1,898 1,912 1,888 1,753 1,585 1,500 1,489 1,573 1,556 1,762

Note: Fiscal Years 2021, 2022 and 2023 FTE usage excludes CARES, CRRSA Act and ARP 

Act FTE.

Supplemental funding provided through the CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP helped the 

Department add temporary hires for the emergency work needed to help districts, schools, and 

institutions of higher education recover from the pandemic. However, the offices funded by 

Contracts

26.7%, $141.4

Other Non-Personnel 

4.3%, $23.1

Overhead

(Rent)

4.8%, $25.7

Personnel 

Compensation & 

Benefits (PC&B)

64.2%, $340.3

FY 2023 Salaries & Expenses Costs by Category

($ in millions)

PC&B and fixed overhead costs comprise of approximately 69% of the Program Administration budget.
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Program Administration remain severely understaffed as made evident from the 10-year staffing 

history. The Department has struggled to keep pace with the demands placed on it, and in 

many cases has had to make difficult choices as to which activities to prioritize. 

Correspondingly, the risk of fraud and abuse in Federal programs has increased and the ability 

to be responsive to Congressional priorities has been compromised. For fiscal year 2023, the 

Administration requests funding to ensure sufficient capacity to effectively manage its programs

and be responsive to its stakeholders, including Congress. The Administration requests 1,762 

FTE for Salaries and Expenses, 206 above the 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 

2021 appropriation. While still below 2016 staffing, this increase would provide much-needed 

manpower to deliver on its mission.

The FTE requested by office (see page 39) reflects a careful assessment of staffing needs

across the Department, including office-specific workforce analyses. These analyses uniformly 

indicated that current FTE levels have not kept pace with workload; further, several offices have 

delayed hiring necessary backfills even for junior-grade positions due to existing budget 

constraints. Additional program staff are critically needed to fill in gaps to provide adequate

grants monitoring, technical assistance to grantees, data management and reporting, contract 

project management, and responsiveness to IG and GAO audits. More staff are further needed 

to support Department programs through legal advice and analysis; budgeting and policy 

analysis; data collection, reporting, and analysis; facilities management; staffing and human 

resources; and financial analysis and reporting. In addition to requesting 1,762 FTE in total to 

restore adequate capacity to the Department, the Administration’s request provides staffing 

capacity for the following new initiatives: 

• Standing up of Supply Chain Risk Management programs, along with all other CFO Act 

agencies, in response to 145 recommendations from GAO Report GAO-21-171, 

Information and Communications Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Take Urgent 

Action to Manage Supply Chain Risks.

• Standing up of a small Office of School Infrastructure and Sustainability of three FTE

and housed within the Office of the Secretary. The Office will liaise with partner federal 

agencies that have programs, grants, and equities in school facilities; promote their 

resources to schools; provide robust technical assistance to partner federal agencies, 

LEAs and SEAs; stand up the proposed National Clearinghouse on School Infrastructure 

and Sustainability; and oversee the recognition award U.S. Department of Education 

Green Ribbon Schools. The Office would allow the Department to meet facility needs of 

school communities during a critical moment and the Administration’s commitment to 

address the causes and consequences of climate change. 

Personnel Compensation and Benefits (PC&B) Costs

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $340.3 million for Personnel Compensation 

and Benefits to support six programs and eight staff offices, $53.7 million more than a fiscal 

year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The increase reflects an 

increase of 206 FTE (discussed in the Staffing section), and a proposed government-wide 4.6

percent pay raise. The overall increase above the 2022 level for the pay raise totals $12.8
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million and the increase for the additional FTE totals $40.9 million (inclusive of the pay raise for 

those positions).

Non-Personnel Costs

Non-Personnel (excluding Centralized Services)

(dollars in thousands)

Non-Personnel 

(excluding Centralized 

Services)

2021 

Appropriation 2022 Estimate 2023 Request

Difference 2022 

from 2023

Other Non-Personnel $43,773 $45,724 $67,052 $21,328

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $190.2 million for Non-Personnel activities, 

$46.8 million more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. Non-Personnel costs cover such items as travel, rent, mail, telephones, utilities, 

printing, Information Technology (IT), contractual services, equipment, supplies, and other 

overhead departmental services. Major drivers for the increase include but are not limited to 

investments in cybersecurity and data governance, access, and analytics, including an online 

equity data dashboard. The increase for other non-personnel amounts excluding overhead 

departmental centralized services is $21.3 million.

Departmental Centralized Services

Approximately 65 percent of the total non-personnel budget request covers Program 

Administration’s share of the Department’s centralized services. For fiscal year 2023, the 

Administration requests $123.1 million for centralized services, $25.5 million more than a fiscal 

year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The major centralized 

service items include overhead costs for: interagency agreements for services such as payroll 

processing, security rent-guard services, and background security investigations. Centralized 

services also include communications and IT equipment, services, support, maintenance, and 

improvements. 

The third major component of the Department’s centralized services is rent. The Building 

Modernization justification provides information about the investments ED has made that have 

successfully brought down rent costs, as well as the need to continue such investments and the 

return they can provide.
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Departmental Centralized Services

(dollars in thousands)

Item 2022 Estimate 2023 Request Difference

Rent $28,222 28,222 0

Other Central Support 26,157 39,364 13,207

Central IT 43,228 58,050 14,822

Total, Centralized Services $97,607 $123,108 $28,222

The following section provides information on projects for centralized services.

Centralized Services – IT

The Office of the Chief Information Officer oversees IT projects that provide security for the 

Department’s IT systems.

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $26.9 million for these projects, $8.2 million 

more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The 

increases are due to cost increases in cybersecurity for newly added development, 

modernization, and enhancement (DME) acquisitions in an effort to align the projects with the 

modernized cybersecurity requirement mandates set forth in the Executive Order on Improving 

the Nation’s Cybersecurity established May 12, 2021, and increased HSPD-12/PIV costs. 

Additional IT funding is provided by the Department’s other Salaries and Expenses accounts. 

The total request across all accounts for these projects is $58.3 million.

A primary focus of the IT security funds will be to support Enterprise Cybersecurity Program 

(ECP) investments aimed to improve security for the PIVOT infrastructure and the applications 

and systems hosted therein. ECP funds will also ensure that the large number of applications 

and systems externally hosted at contractor-managed sites across the country are fully 

compliant with Federal and Department cybersecurity and privacy policies and guidelines.

The ECP projects and investment goals include:

• enhanced protection of high value assets;

• robust implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity 

Framework functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover);

• improved situational awareness;

• enhanced network monitoring;

• timely incident response;

• consistent and formal security authorizations for all Federal Information Security 

Modernization Act information systems;

• timely mitigation of vulnerabilities to acceptable risk levels; and,
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• updated documentation of ECP policies, processes, and procedures to conform with the 

National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines for risk-based security 

authorization.

PIVOT

The Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies (PIVOT) contracts are the largest dollar 

value contracts funded by the Program Administration account and are essential to operations 

in every Department office. PIVOT services include but are not limited to desktop, helpdesk, 

hardware, software, network connectivity (including remote network access), data storage, 

technical support, email, wireless, and mobile phone services. PIVOT is comprised of the 

following PIVOT investments: Hosting; Integration; Mobile; Network; Printing; and Oversight. 

The portfolio of services is created to enhance user experience and foster innovation to improve 

efficiency and opportunities for improved services.

All PIVOT contracts have been awarded including the Networks (PIVOT N) contract, which was 

awarded August 12, 2020. PIVOT-N will serve as the Department’s new GSA Enterprise 

Infrastructure Solution (EIS) contract. The PIVOT-O initial contract, which provides project 

oversight, expired in March 2021 and a bridge contract was awarded to extend services to 

March 28, 2022. The PIVOT-O contract has since been split into two different contracts: 

PIVOT-A (Administration) and PIVOT-T (Technical). PIVOT-A has already been awarded and 

PIVOT-T will be awarded in mid-March. The fiscal year 2023 funding request allows the 

Department to exercise Option Year 1 of both PIVOT-A and PIVOT-T. The new PIVOT-P 

contract was awarded on March 1st, 2022 for a base period through February 28, 2023, which 

was funded during FY22. We anticipate soliciting and awarding PIVOT-H during FY23. 

The PIVOT framework consists of six contracts, shown in the table below.

Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies (PIVOT)

Contract Description Award Date Full Period of 

Performance

FY23 

Request 

(PA only)

FY23 

Action

PIVOT -

Integrator 

and EndUser 

Services 

(I)

Enterprise 

Integration

The PIVOT-I Contractor is 

responsible for the 

technical management and 

integration of PIVOT IT 

services. Through 

Operating Level 

Agreements with PIVOT 

service providers mirrored 

in contractual SLAs and 

performance commitments, 

the PIVOT-I Contractor 

ensures that the end-to-end 

October 2018 November 2018 

- April 2026

$11.653M Option 

Period 4
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Contract Description Award Date Full Period of 

Performance

FY23 

Request 

(PA only)

FY23 

Action

user experience (e.g., 

desktop services, helpdesk 

services, remote access, 

etc.) meets contractually 

obligated operational 

parameters.

PIVOT -

Hosting 

(H)

Enterprise 

Hosting

The PIVOT-H Contractor is 

responsible for providing a 

system/application hosting 

environment, data storage 

service and Disaster 

Recovery services. 

Although it is preferred that 

tools and services in use be 

hosted with PIVOT-H there 

are cases that present 

special circumstances that 

require approval for 

hosting/ services outside of 

the PIVOT-H enterprise.

June 2018 July 2018 –

December 2022

The Department 

is currently 

looking at 

extending this 

Period of

Performance for 

an additional 12 

month period 

through the end 

of December 

2023

$3.938M New 

award 

(recompete)

PIVOT -

Network 

(N)

Enterprise 

MNS

The PIVOT-N Contractors 

are responsible for 

providing GSA EIS 

Managed Network 

Services, LAN, WAN, 

Telecommunications, and 

wireless connectivity 

throughout the PIVOT 

infrastructure to facilitate all 

PIVOT IT services.

April 2020 September 2020 

- July 2032

$5.159M Option 

Period 3

PIVOT -

Oversight 

(O)

Enterprise 

Oversight

Program & Project 

Management Support, IT 

Performance Monitoring, 

and IT Technical Expertise.

This is being split into 

PIVOT-A (Administration) 

and PIVOT-T (Technical)

January 2022 

(A); March 

2022-

anticipated 

(T)

January 2022 -

October 2025

(A); March 2022 

– March 2025-

anticipated (T)

$1.903M Option 

Period 1 

(A); 

Option 

Period

1(T)

PIVOT -

Printers 

(P)

Enterprise 

Printing

The PIVOT-P Contractor is 

responsible for providing 

managed print services for 

the Department. Managed 

print services include 

March 2022 March 2022 –

February 2027

$1.299M Option 

Period 1 
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Contract Description Award Date Full Period of 

Performance

FY23 

Request 

(PA only)

FY23 

Action

printing, scanning, copying, 

and faxing.

PIVOT -

Mobile 

Services 

(M) Recompete

Enterprise 

End-User 

and 

Mobile

The PIVOT-M Contractor is 

responsible for providing 

mobile device services for 

the Department. Mobile 

services include mobile 

device management, 

specific help desk support, 

inventory, and asset 

management.

September 

2019

September 2019 

– September 

2029

$947K Option 

Period 4

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $23.8 million for PIVOT, $2.9 million more than 

a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The requested 

amount is solely for the Program Administration account’s shared costs. The Department’s total 

budget for this investment is $51.6 million. The balance of the funding needed is included in the 

budget requests for the other Departmental Management accounts.

EDCAPS

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $12.9 million for EDCAPS, $7.1 million more 

than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The fiscal 

year 2023 increase is mainly for the first phase of the new Contracts and Purchasing Support 

System (CPSS). Additional EDCAPS funding is provided by the Department’s other Salaries 

and Expenses accounts. The total request across all accounts for these projects is $38.8 

million.

Funding supports continued operations and enhancement of the EDCAPS core financial 

system, which includes five major components:

• Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) (general ledger, accounting, 

reporting, budget execution, funds control);

• Contracts and Purchasing Support System (CPSS);

• G5 (grant making system);

• Integrated Support Services; and,

• Travel System.

The FMSS remains in mixed lifecycle with operations and maintenance, and enhancements 

occurring. In fiscal year 2021, the Department’s Office of Business Support Services (OBSS) 

finished implementing the Financial Statement Report (FSR) Statement of Net Cost to meet 

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines related to Statement of Net Cost in OMB 

Circular A-136. In addition, the OBSS continues work to meet U.S. General Service 
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Administration’s (GSA’s) Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) requirements and is in the process of 

upgrading FMSS to Oracle Release 12.2.10. OBSS also implemented the Order-to-Cash (O2C) 

business process cycle and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes in fiscal year 2021. Upgrading 

FMSS to Oracle Release 12.2.10 is a prerequisite requirement for implementing G-Invoicing 

and UEI functionality. In fiscal year 2022, the OBSS will implement G-Invoicing as mandated by 

Treasury by October 2022, complete the UEI enhancement, and integrate with Treasury's 

Cross-Servicing Next Generation.

The Department will continue to enhance FMSS functionality in fiscal year 2023 to meet 

Treasury mandates and user needs as required.

The Contracts and Purchasing Support System (CPSS) utilizes Computers and Information 

Technology Company (CACI’s) Comprizon Suite software. The OBSS Contracts and 

Procurement Branch completed market research on the feasibility of implementing an end-toend acquisition management system (AMS) that would manage the entire acquisition lifecycle 

process from planning through contract close. The Department is performing tasks in 

preparation for system replacement, including Data Cleanup, Architecture Validation, and 

developing the procurement package. In fiscal year 2023, the Department requests $7.5 

million, $6.1 million more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. This will include the following efforts:

• Award the contract for replacing CPSS;

• Purchase software as required;

• Develop project documentation to include things like a requirements matrix, and master 

schedule;

• Develop and/or configure a COTS, GOTS, or hybrid solution;

• Work with the Department CIO for project governance, ATO, and security;

• Develop a plan and execute any needed data conversion or transformation.

The G5 modernization effort continued in fiscal year 2021 as the Department further refined its 

architecture framework by identifying alternatives for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-aService, and Software-as-a-Service candidates for the G5 modernization and conducting 

cost/benefit analysis. This work fed into execution of the acquisition strategy for the Next 

Generation Grants Management system by assisting with articulating the requirements to 

ensure support for the Department’s vision of a modular and secure Next Generation Grants 

Management system. The Department awarded the G5 modernization contract on September 

28, 2021.

In fiscal year 2022, the Department began the G5 Technology Refresh/Next Generation Grants 

Management System, now officially referred to as G6, - Module 1. The two major objectives of 

Module 1 are one: to establish the Education Grants’ Platform (EGP) which will serve as the 

foundation for all future grant system functionality and allow the Department to easily 

incorporate future technology advancements and increase responsiveness to legislative 

changes; and two: to implement an updated user interface. The goal is to introduce a more 

intuitive look and feel that helps the user navigate easily to perform day to day grants 

management operations. The preliminary G6 plan is to implement 4 modules over 4 fiscal 
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years. Module 1, the EGP, is the first phase of the G6 implementation and is planned to cover 

the development of the following:

• A complete proof of concept to demonstrate that the proposed modernized architecture, 

security, and data flow will integrate with the existing G5 system;

• Overall plan for deployment of modules and data conversion;

• Platform architecture and security platform design;

• Platform implementation (hardware/software) (development and test environment);

• User management and security infrastructure implementation (internal and external);

• My profile infrastructure;

• Portal landing page framework design.

In fiscal year 2023, the Department is requesting $3.0 million, $1.0 million more than a fiscal 

year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation, to continue the build of 

G6 modernized modules according to the deployment plan. In 2023 the plans for the G6 project 

include the following:

• Begin to develop and replace functionality for the existing G5 system with modernized 

G6 modular specific applications like grants payments, pre-award, and post-award.

• Fully integrate data transfer between the existing G5 system and the G6 modernized 

system.

• Fully integrate security for single sign-on to allow seamless user access between both 

applications.

• Put the first G6 modernized modules into production.

Centralized Service – Non-IT

The following section provides additional information on Centralized Service projects not related 

to IT.

Security for Personnel and Buildings

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $11.2 million for security-related expenses 

including guard services, background investigations, and the implementation of the Continuity of 

Operations Plan, $1.6 million less than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal 

year 2021 appropriation. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is responsible for setting overall 

security policy and in determining the costs of security items. The Department works with the 

FPS and other local and Federal law enforcement organizations to ensure the safety and 

security of the Department's many buildings, its sensitive information, and its employees. The 

Department’s security policies and procedures have been implemented in response to General 

Services Administration and Department of Homeland Security standards and comply with an 

array of legal and regulatory requirements. The total request across all accounts for these 

projects is $31.9 million.

Rent
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The Department pays rent to the General Services Administration on the Federal and nonFederal buildings that are occupied by ED staff across the globe. The funds are used to 

operate the Government’s buildings and pay rent to the private sector for leased space. The 

Department is actively working to use space more efficiently by modernizing and reducing the 

total square footage of domestic office and warehouse inventories (for more information on 

investments to reduce or consolidate space, refer to the Building Modernization request, page 

37.

Other Non-Personnel Costs – IT

The following section provides additional information on projects related to IT.

Education Stabilization Fund Public Transparency Portal

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $1.6 million for the Education Stabilization 

Fund (ESF) Public Transparency Portal (PTP). The ESF is an investment of over $263 billion 

into state and institutional COVID-19 recovery and rebuilding efforts, managed by the U.S. 

Department of Education to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus impacts on 

education for our nation’s students. This portal provides the public with a transparent view into 

how Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) funds are spent. The portal will also have a public 

facing reporting portal available for grantees, primarily States and Institutions of Higher 

Education.

Education Data Repository, Enterprise Analytics, and Master Data Management Solution

The Department's Data Governance Board (DGB), through interviews conducted with every 

principal office, identified data accessibility , the ability of staff to access and use collected data, 

as the agency's biggest challenge. The Department’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) 

group also identified data accessibility as a major risk. In addition, OCIO's IT Modernization 

Plan calls for the development of a data warehouse to support enterprise-wide data 

management and analytics. To mitigate these risks and provide the necessary data solution, for 

fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $850,000 for this project, a new proposal. This 

project will provide a single source location for management and analytics of ED data across 

principal offices. 

ED Data Express and Data Dashboard

The ED Data Express website makes high value, K-12 program data available to the public in 

an easy to access and use format. Prior to ED Data Express, data was only available in Stateby-State PDF documents. For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $500,000 for ED 

Data Express, $300,000 more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 
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2021 appropriation. The increase is to assist with creating a platform for consolidating various 

websites hosted by OESE programs into a single authoritative branded site.

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration also requests $3.0 million to increase transparency 

through development of a P-12 equity data dashboard at the Department. The dashboard would 

aggregate existing information about factors affecting P-12 educational opportunity and equity 

and make such data readily available to the public. The dashboard could include school-level

data on resources (including per-pupil expenditures), school environmental factors, 

opportunities to engage in high-quality learning, access to well-rounded coursework, entry into 

college and career pathways, access to most prepared and effective school staff, or other 

factors that can increase student well-being and lead to success. This type of information would 

help increase transparency, increase meaningful engagement with diverse stakeholders, and 

promote informed decision making that can lead to strategies for eliminating inequities in the 

P-12 system. The data provided fulfills the open data by default requirements in the 

Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act; provides data to SEAs to assist in fulfilling 

the state, local, and school report card requirements under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act (ESEA); and will soon provide the only source of information to SEAs 

on the Consolidated State Performance Report required under Section 8303 of the ESEA. 

Budget Formulation Database

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $410,000 for the Budget Formulation 

Database, $203,000 more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. Funds will provide additional PIVOT hosting costs and support cost increases. 

The Budget Formulation Database (BFD) is a government-owned, web-based application that is 

used by the Budget Service to collect salary and expense budget information from individual 

offices across the Department of Education. This system allows the Department to process 

budget data submissions in an efficient and transparent way throughout the entire budget 

process, including Department budget submission to OMB and Congress.

Impact Aid Payment System

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $1.4 million for operations and maintenance 

for the Impact Aid Payment System, $29,000 less than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based 

on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The current system became operational in fiscal year 

2020. The antecedent system was not 508 compliant, lacked document management 

functionality to meet records management requirements, and lacked an automated interface 

with the Department’s grant system. In addition, ongoing maintenance has proven difficult. The 

new Impact Aid Payment system adds capabilities to meet higher security requirements and 

additional business needs that are not available with the legacy system. New capabilities will 

improve the customer experience for school districts and improve the speed and accuracy with 

which they receive their funding by reducing reliance on physical documents, streamlining the eApplication process, reducing manual processing, automating transmission of obligation and 

payment files to the Grants Management System (G5), using current and supported software, 

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EDFacts

EDFacts is an information management solution of systems and services related to K-12 

education performance data. Systems provide web-based data collection, ad hoc and standard 

reporting, commercial-off-the-shelf software for business process management and metadata 

collection, a data warehouse centralizing K-12 data with data from other systems, and a 

commercial software survey. Services provided by EDFacts include data supplier conferences, 

data user and supplier assistance, technical assistance to States, custom reports, and training. 

EDFacts data is centralized with other Department data such as financial grant information. 

EDFacts supports policy and budget decisions with a significant degree of accuracy and 

timeliness.

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $13.8 million for this project, $529,000 more 

than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. Funds will 

support steady state operations and maintenance costs, continue system upgrades to tighten 

the security profile and respond to data submission innovations gaining interest among the 

states, address Every Student Succeeds Act change, upgrade the EDFacts Metadata 

Repository for improvements in reference metadata, and continue to enhance data 

management and quality improvements.

Enterprise Risk Management Services and Tools

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $1.8 million for Enterprise Risk Management 

Services and Tools, $350,000 less than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal 

year 2021 appropriation. Funds will support the development, improvement, and maintenance 

of tools designed to leverage enterprise data and analytical solutions to successfully identify and 

manage risks, strengthen internal controls, and inform strategic planning and decision-making 

across the Department. Specifically, this request will support investments that enable the 

Department to:

• Evaluate and strengthen existing risk management tools used by the Department’s 

grant-making offices to support informed determinations and assessments of grantee 

risk, including performing OMB-mandated risk analyses for Federal grants.

• Perform comprehensive data analyses and evaluations of the Department’s programs, 

operations, and administration, resulting in the generation of detailed and interactive 

reports and dashboards to inform decision makers at all levels of the agency.

• Support automated risk management services and tools, including pre-award reports on 

prospective grantees, grant-related business intelligence data visualization, and 

calculations to inform program monitoring plans.

• Identify, measure, and assess challenges related to mission delivery in order to manage 

their risk to a tolerable level and developing actionable response plans.

• Analyze audit and inquiry data to identify trends and vulnerabilities, applying predictive 

analytics to inform strategies and communications related to program risk, audit findings, 

FOIA request, and Congressional communications.
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By leveraging data from the Department’s management and financial business systems, these 

investments will deliver actionable insights to ensure enterprise decisions are informed by high 

quality operational, performance, and risk analyses based on real-time conditions. Additionally, 

these investments will help the Department proactively manage risks, reducing inefficiencies 

and increasing the value of management activities.

Other Non-Personnel Costs – Non-IT

The following section provides additional information on projects not related to IT.

Enterprise Data Infrastructure Support Services (EDISS)

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $500,000 for new Enterprise Data 

Infrastructure Support Services (EDISS) contract. This contract will provide critical expert 

support to the development, operations, and maintenance of a major IT investment, a new 

enterprise-wide data analytics platform (see Education Data Repository, Enterprise Analytics, 

and Master Data Management Solution described above), by providing services essential to the 

smooth development and operation of the platform so that staff and leaders across the agency 

can take advantage of new insights enabled by a comprehensive data lake and coherent data 

warehouse that breaks silos across legacy systems.

Enterprise Data Solutions for Support Efficiency and Modernization (EDSSEM)

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $500,000 for the Enterprise Data Solutions for 

Support Efficiency and Modernization (EDSSEM) contract. The purpose of this contract is to 

implement enterprise data solutions for efficiency and modernization, in support of the 

Department’s plan to progress in meeting goals under the ED Data Strategy. The activities 

under this contract will support requirements in the Evidence Act and the Federal Data 

Strategy1.

Privacy Safeguards

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $500,000 for Privacy Safeguards in OPEPD, 

which funds contract personnel with specialized expertise in privacy law and cybersecurity 

mandates within Federal Government regarding and governing the collection, use, transfer, and 

protection of personally identifiable information (PII).

Presidential Scholars Program

The Presidential Scholars Program, which recognizes the Nation’s most distinguished 

graduating high school seniors, started in 1964. Each year, the White House Commission on 

Presidential Scholars selects up to 161 students for this honor. For fiscal year 2023, the 

1 Federal Data Strategy Year-1 Action Plan: https://strategy.data.gov/action-plan/
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Administration requests $908,000 for the Presidential Scholars Program, $58,000 more than a 

fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation.

Data Governance Board and Data Governance Infrastructure

The Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act) charges the Chief Data 

Officer (CDO) with lifecycle data management across the Department; managing the 

Department’s data assets, including the standardization of data format, sharing of data assets, 

and publication of data assets; and reviewing the impact of the Department infrastructure on 

data asset accessibility and ensures, to the extent practical, that Department data conforms with 

data management best practices. The CDO is also responsible for developing, publishing, and 

enforcing the Department’s open data plan requiring new data collections to be available in an 

open format and identifying as priority data assets any data asset for which disclosure would be 

in the public interest. In supporting statutory requirements that data assets be made open by 

default, the CDO will maintain a comprehensive data inventory that accounts for all data assets 

created by, collected by, under the control or direction of, or maintained by the Department.

The Federal Data Strategy also requires that every agency formalize and convene a Data 

Governance Board (DGB), driven by the agency’s CDO with participation from Senior 

Executives in agency business units. The CDO, in coordination with the Department’s DGB, 

ensures that agency resources are aligned with agency priorities based on a maturity 

assessment and mission needs. They also oversee agency-wide actions to develop an open 

data culture and work to improve the Department’s capacity to leverage data as a strategic 

asset for evidence building and operational decisions, to include the development of data 

professionals across all principal operating components. 

This contract will support these and other governance-related functions, leveraging optional task 

orders as needed to assess Department data maturity, identify, and execute necessary data 

standards, develop, and administer data literacy and training programs, implement a targeted 

master data management program, and/or similar initiatives determined by the CDO and DGB. 

Support in these foundational areas also foster progress in the Department Data Strategy. 

Developed by the Department’s DGB and first published in December 2020, this Data Strategy 

is updated bi-annually to document planned objectives to improve the strategic use of data in 

the Department. For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $960,000 for the DGB, 

$235,000 more than a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 

appropriation. 

The scope of the data governance investment expanded to include support for the Data 

Coordinator Council and the Data Professionals Community of Practice. Both are tactical bodies 

part of the agency’s planned three-tier model for data governance, each providing solutions to 

challenges and initiatives shared by all POCs. The development of shared tactical solutions is 

intended to improve management of data, while also reducing the costs associated with siloed 

solutions. The original DGBDGI investment also only supported the assessment data maturity, 

as required by the Federal Data Strategy; the expanded scope of this investment is intended to 

provide support to the Department and POCs in the improvement data maturity.
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Acquisition Management Program

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $860,000 for Department’s Acquisition 

Management Program (AMP) contract, level with a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on 

the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The contract will aid in four core functions: 

• Acquisition Policy; 

• Acquisition Workforce Development; 

• Supply Chain Management; and 

• Acquisition Business Systems. 

The contract will support the AMP, which manages the Department’s compliance with the 

Services Acquisition Reform Act. Contractor support is required to assure the Department 

complies with innovation-related directives in the President’s Management Agenda along with 

other OMB initiatives. It will also provide project management, planning, and support for the 

Acquisition Management Consolidated Acquisition System.
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Building Modernization

(Department of Education Organization Act)

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2023 Authorization: Indefinite

Budget Authority:

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Building Modernization activity supports relocation of Department of Education staff as well 

as renovation of Department buildings within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and in 

several regional offices. From 2016 through 2022, the Department has been able to reduce its 

rent costs in Program Administration by nearly a third through these activities. Further 

reductions in rent will require additional funding.

Funding levels for the past 5 fiscal years were:

Fiscal Year (dollars in thousands) 

2018 $0

2019 0

2020 0

2021 0

2022 Estimate 0

FY 2023 BUDGET REQUEST

For fiscal year 2023, the Administration requests $17.5 million for Building Modernization, $17.5 

million above a fiscal year 2022 annualized CR based on the fiscal year 2021 appropriation. 

Building Modernization funding is imperative to achieve the larger rent reductions in the 

Department’s comprehensive program and to ensure that taxpayer resources are focused on 

the operating costs that allow the Department to better serve students and their parents. The 

cornerstone of this program is a consolidation of the Department’s three major buildings in 

Washington, D.C. – the Lyndon Baines Johnson headquarters building (LBJ), Potomac Center 

Plaza (PCP), and Union Center Plaza (UCP). The Department developed a staggered 

renovation and relocation plan that will ultimately fit Department staff into only two of these 

buildings, LBJ and PCP, by 2025. This project will free up a total of 247,000 square feet from 

UCP and 22,00 square feet from PCP. This will entirely eliminate the rent costs of $12 million a 

year at UCP and reduce rent at PCP by $1.1 million a year. By the end of fiscal year 2021, the 

Department has successfully renovated two floors of LBJ, allowing approximately 400 staff from 

PCP to move into LBJ. To complete this move successfully, the

2022 Estimate 2023 Request Change

0 $17,500 +$17,500
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Department needs to continue to invest in this project on an annual basis. The Department is 

receiving financial and logistical support from GSA for this project, contingent upon being able to 

provide the requested funding.

The funds requested for fiscal year 2023 would go toward the initiatives outlined below.

Headquarters Offices Modernization and Consolidation: 

• LBJ 1 West Grant Room and Library floor renovation – This project to relocate the 

Grant room and renovate the LBJ library to increase the occupancy to approximately 95 

seats. The furniture and construction renovation amount of $860,000 is requested in 

fiscal year 2023.

• PCP 9th floor renovation – This project to renovate the 9th floor of PCP will increase 

the occupancy from 145 to approximately 220. The construction renovation amount of 

$1.990 million is requested in fiscal year 2023.

• LBJ 3rd floor renovation – This project to renovate the 3rd floor of LBJ will increase 

the occupancy from 273 to approximately 375. The furniture and construction 

renovation amount of $3.310 million is requested in fiscal year 2023.

• LBJ 6th floor renovation – This project to renovate the 6th floor of LBJ will increase the 

occupancy to approximately 383. The construction renovation amount of $6.820 million 

is requested in fiscal year 2023.

• PCP 8th floor renovation – This project to renovate the 8th floor of PCP will start the 

preparation for relocating FSA from UCP to PCP. A partial amount is requested due to 

funding constraints for construction renovation for $1.844 million in fiscal year 2023.

Regional Offices Modernization and Consolidation:

• New York Regional Office relocation – ED will move from its current location at 32 Old 

Slip to 26 Fed Plaza in fiscal year 2023. The Department is requesting $1.696 million for 

construction and furniture at 26 Fed Plaza in fiscal year 2023 to prepare for the move. 

GSA provided 2021 funds of $9.4 million in construction funding and $800,000 for design 

for this project. The Department expects the new space to save up to $1.0 million in rent 

annually.

• Philadelphia Regional Office Relocation – ED will move from its current location at the 

Wanamaker Building to the WM J. Green Junior Federal building. This new location will 

provide 98 seats. The Department is requesting $980,000 in fiscal year 2023 for 

furniture for the new space. 
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Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employment by Office

OFFICE

2021 

Actual 

2022 

Base

2023 

Request 

Change from 

2022 to 2023

Career, Technical, and Adult Education 63 63 74 11

Chief Information Officer 86 85 100 15

Communications and Outreach 90 86 94 8

Elementary and Secondary Education 252 248 273 25

English Language Acquisition, Language 

Enhancement, and Academic Achievement 

for Limited English Proficient Students 16 17 19 2

Finance and Operations 375 372 409 37

General Counsel 79 85 100 15

Institute of Education Sciences 155 159 

 

172 13

Legislation and Congressional Affairs 15 14 16 2

Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development 59 57 75 18

Postsecondary Education 114 111 149 38

Secretary 79 75 83 8

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services 179 174 185 11

Under Secretary 11 10 13 3

Total 1,5731 1,5562 1,7623 206

1 FY 2021 FTE total excludes 82 FTE related to and funded by CARES, CRRSAA, and ARP Acts in various offices. 2 FY 2022 FTE total excludes 63 FTE related to and funded by CRRSAA and ARP Acts in various offices. 3 FY 2023 FTE total excludes 45.5 FTE related to and funded by CRRSAA and ARP Acts in various offices.
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Summary of Budget Authority by Principal Office

(dollars in thousands)

OFFICE 2021 BA 

2022 

Estimate

2023 

Request

footnote

Change 

from 2022 

to 2023

Career, Technical, and Adult Education $12,265 $12,746 $15,652 $2,906

Central Information Technology 49,402 43,228 58,050 14,822

Central Support 61,726 61,212 89,047 1 27,835

Chief Information Officer 16,320 16,857 21,036 4,179

Communications and Outreach 19,238 18,864 21,780 2,916 

Elementary and Secondary Education 45,952 46,678 57,083 10,405 

English Language Acquisition, Language 

Enhancement, and Academic Achievement 

for Limited English Proficient Students 2,643 2,833 3,409 576

Finance and Operations 73,751 74,505 88,503 13,998 

General Counsel 17,357 18,558 22,850 4,292

Institute of Education Sciences 41,062 45,061 50,037 4,976

Legislation and Congressional Affairs 2,509 2,548 3,120 572

Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development 14,810 14,515 31,059 16,544

Postsecondary Education 19,232 19,472 28,069 8,597 

Secretary 18,004 17,250 17,588 338 

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services 33,807 33,859 38,158 4,299

Under Secretary 1,922 1,814 2,559 745 

Total, Budget Authority 430,000 430,000 548,000 118,000

1 Fiscal year 2022 and 2023 includes Building Modernization in Central Support (no funds are included for Building 

Modernization in fiscal year 2021).

Note: No funds are included for CARES, CRRSAA, or ARP Acts.
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Account Summary Table

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2023 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

(in thousands of dollars)

Cat Code 2021 Appropriation

2022

Estimate

2023

Request

2023 Request Compared to

2022 Estimate

Amount Percent

Program Administration (DEOA)

1. Salaries and expenses D 430,000 430,000 530,500 100,500 23.37%

2. Building Modernization D 0 0 17,500 17,500 ---

Total 430,000 430,000 548,000 118,000 27.44%

NOTES:

1) D = discretionary program; M = mandatory programs

2) Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

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