Department of Education

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request

CONTENTS

Page

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, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260)......................... 5

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-02) ................................ 6

Obligations by Object Classification, Technology Modernization Fund, Zero Trust Architecture.. 7

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

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

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

Significant Items in FY 2023 Appropriations Reports ................................................................. 12

Activities: 

Salaries and Expenses...........................................................................................................19

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

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employment by Office.....................................................................37

Summary of Budget Authority by Principal Office .......................................................................38

Account Summary Table.............................................................................................................39
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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, [$426,907,000] $527,609,000, of which up to [$7,000,000] 

$19,250,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available for relocation expenses, and 

for the renovation and repair of leased buildings:1 Provided, That of the amount provided under 

this heading, the Secretary may use up to $2,000,000 to support a commission on the future of 

the teaching profession that addresses the pressing needs of the field, including by 

recommending state, federal, and local actions that will strengthen the recruitment, preparation, 

and retention of diverse and talented educators in order to address long-standing shortages in 

and challenges to the profession:2 Provided further, 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 (Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2023.)

NOTE

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

Provisions and Changes table, which follows the appropriations language.
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Analysis of Language Provisions and Changes

Language Provision Explanation

1...of which up to [$7,000,000] $19,250,000, 

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 of the amount provided 

under this heading, the Secretary may use 

up to $2,000,000 to support a commission on 

the future of the teaching profession that 

addresses the pressing needs of the field, 

including by recommending state, federal, 

and local actions that will strengthen the 

recruitment, preparation, and retention of 

diverse and talented educators in order to 

address long-standing shortages in and 

challenges to the profession

This language allows the Secretary of 

Education to use up to $2,000,000 of 

appropriated funds to support a commission 

on the future of the teaching profession. 

3 Provided further, 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 2022 2023 2024

Discretionary budget authority:

Appropriation $394,907 $426,907 $527,609

Transfer from Student Aid Administration 7,000 0 0

Subtotal, adjusted discretionary appropriation 401,907 426,907 527,609

Unobligated balance, start of year 22,904 11,336 0

Unobligated balance, transfer from Tech. Modernization Fund 15,000 5,000 0

Recovery of prior year obligations 27 0 0

Unobligated balance expiring -2,345 0 0

Unobligated balance, end of year -11,3361 0 0

 Total, Direct Obligations $425,347 $443,243 $527,609

1 Fiscal year 2022 unobligated balance, end of year, includes carryover for Building Modernization ($149k), CRRSAA 

Act ($2,673k), ARP Act ($4,613k), and Technology Modernization Fund/Zero Trust Architecture ($3,901k).
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Obligations by Object Classification, Program Administration

(dollars in thousands)

Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Appropriation

2024

Request

Change from 

2023 to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent $174,266 $199,657 $222,876 $23,219

11.31 Full-time temporary 15,250 8,984 9,862 878

11.32 Part-time 1,066 0 0 0

11.33 Consultants 229 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 1,195 440 646 206

11.52 Awards 3,939 4,365 4,738 373

11.8 Other compensation 59 0 0 0

Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 196,004 213,446 238,122 24,676

12.00 Benefits 71,886 73,468 82,551 9,083

12.13 Other Benefits 0 60 60 0

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 22 15 -7

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 100 433 433 0

Subtotal, Benefits 71,986 73,983 83,059 9,076

21.00 Travel 2,272 3,624 4,528 904

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0 

23.10 Rental Payments to GSA 25,915 27,253 27,639 386

23.31 Communications 1,268 1,193 1,150 -43

23.32 Postage/fees 10 145 120 -25

Subtotal, 23 27,193 28,591 32,036 3,445

24.00 Printing & Reproduction 844 928 1052 124

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 1,494 3,424 5,705 2,281

25.21 Other Services 24,083 21,700 32,892 11,192

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 1,248 1,560 3,250 1,690

25.23 Field Readers 16 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 13,765 14,503 15,275 772

25.40 Operations/Maint of Facilities 0 0 0 0 

25.71 Operations/Maint of Equipment 1,041 950 1,323 373

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 54,260 58,462 91,727 33,265

Subtotal, 25 95,907 100,599 150,172 49,573

26.00 Supplies 352 387 508 121

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 3,018 216 321 105

31.3 Other Equipment 0 758 5,235 4,477

Subtotal, 31 3,018 974 5,556 4,582

32.00 Building Alterations 3,979 4,375 15,703 11,328

41.10 Grants 0 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 2 0 0 0

Total, Obligations 401,557 426,907 527,609 100,702

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 267,990 287,429 321,181 33,752

Total, Non-Personnel 133,567 139,478 206,428 66,950
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260)

(dollars in thousands)

Object 

class 

number Object Class

 

 2022 

Actual 

2023

Appropriation

2024

Request 

Change from 

2023 to 2024

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

11.31 Full-time temporary 2,187 $1,422 0 -$1,422

11.32 Part-time 0 0 0 0

11.33 Consultants 0 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 5 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 9 0 0 0

11.8 Other compensation 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 3,788 1,422 0 -1,422

12.00 Benefits 1,053 527 0 -527

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 0 0 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Benefits 1,053 527 0 -527

21.00 Travel 11 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 192 211 0 -211

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 0 0 0 0 

25.23 Field Readers 0 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov't 0 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 587 513 0 -513

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 779 724 0 -724

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 5,631 2,673 0 -2,673

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 4,841 1,949 0 -1,949

Total, Non-Personnel 790 724 0 -724
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-02)

(dollars in thousands)

class 

number Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Appropriation

2024

Request 

Change from 

2023 to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent $644 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary 2,596 $2,072 0 -$2,072

11.32 Part-time 36 0 0 9

11.33 Consultants 0 0 0 0 

11.51 Overtime 3 0 0 0 

11.52 Awards 0 0 0 0

11.8 Other compensation 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 3,279 2,072 0 -2,072

12.00 Benefits 1,611 767 0 -767

12.15 Student Loan Repayment 0 0 0 0

13.10 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, Benefits 4,890 2,839 0 -2,839

21.00 Travel 36 219 0 -219

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 7 0 0 0

25.10 Advisory and Assistance Svcs 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other Services 1,070 990 0 -990

25.22 Training/Tuition/Contracts 0 0 0 0 

25.23 Field Readers 0 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/Services from Gov’t 451 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 0 565 0 -565

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 1,521 1,555 0 -1,555

26.00 Supplies 282 0 0 0 

31.01 IT Equipment/Software 124 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 200 0 0 0

43.10 Interest and Dividends 0 0

 

0 0

Total 

Row Total, Obligations 7,060 4,613 0 -4,613

Total, Pers. Comp. & Ben. 4,890 2,839 0 -2,839

Total, Non-Personnel 2,170 1,774 0 -1,774
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Obligations by Object Classification, Technology Modernization Fund, Zero Trust Architecture

(dollars in thousands)

class 

number Object Class

2022 

Actual

2023 

Appropriation 

2024 

Request

Change

from 2023 

to 2024

25.72 IT Services/Contracts 11,099 8,901 0 -8,901

Subtotal 

Row Subtotal, 25 11,099 8,901 0 -8,901

Total 

Row Total, Obligations 11,099 8,901 0 -8,901

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

Total, Non-Personnel 11,099 8,901 0 -8,901
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Summary of Changes

(dollars in thousands)

2023 $426,907

2024 527,609

Net Change +100,702

Increases: 2023 Base

Change 

from Base

Built in:

Increase in salaries and benefits for a proposed 5.2 percent pay 

raise and anticipated benefits increases. $287,428 +$14,666

Increase in rent. 27,253 +386

Program:

Increase in salaries and benefits mostly for an increase of 100 

FTE. 287,428 +19,086

Increase in travel. 3,624 +904

Increase in printing. 928 +124

Increase in advisory and assistance services primarily for 

strengthening internal controls (OMB Circular 123 Initiative) and 

the AI & Formative Assessment Challenge initiative. 3,424 +2,281

Increase in other services primarily for investments intended to 

make better use of data (EDRAP, EDISS, EDSSEM, and Tiered 

Data Access), DECAL Challenge, Grants Monitoring and Process 

Improvement, and Comprehensive Data Inventory Support. 21,700 +11,192

Increase in training. 1,560 +1,690

Increase in goods/services from government (i.e., outgoing 

interagency agreements). 14,503 +772

Increase in operations/maintenance of equipment to replace 

access control equipment (cameras, digital recorders, card 

readers, etc.) throughout the department that is at end-of-life 

cycle. 950 +373

Increase in IT services and contracts primarily for Enterprise 

Cybersecurity Programs and modernization of the Department’s 

contracts and grants systems (CPSS). 58,462 +33,265
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Summary of Changes, continued

(dollars in thousands)

Increases: 2023 base

Change 

from base

Program:

Increase in supplies. 387 +121

Increase in IT Equipment and software. 216 +105

Increases in Other Equipment for building 

modernization projects. 758 +4,477

Increase in building alterations for building 

modernization projects in Headquarters offices in LBJ 

and PCP, and regional offices. 4,375 +11,328

Subtotal, increases +100,770

Decreases: 2023 base

Change 

from base

Program:

Decrease in postage. 145 -25

Decrease in communications. 1,193 -43

Subtotal, decreases -68

Net Change +100,702
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Authorizing Legislation

(dollars in thousands)

Activity

2023 Authorized 2023

Appropriation

2024 Authorized 2024

Request

Salaries and Expenses (DEOA) Indefinite $419,907 Indefinite $508,359

Building Modernization (DEOA) Indefinite 7,000 Indefinite 19,250

Total appropriation 426,907 527,609
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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 430,000 480,000 419,973 394,907

202313 548,000 462,500 448,000 426,907

2024 527,609

 

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 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (P.L. 117-

103).

13 The House allowance reflects the regular annual FY 2023 appropriation, which was introduced on the floor; the 

Senate allowance reflects the Chairman’s mark; and the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2023 (P.L. 117-328).
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Significant Items in FY 2023 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 plans to comply with this directive.

Advertising Contracts

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

its fiscal year 2024 Congressional Budget Justification: Expenditures for fiscal 

year 2022, 2023, and expected expenditures for fiscal years 2024, 

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 has complied with this directive by providing the requested 

information in the Salaries and Expenses Overview Congressional 

Justification. 

Non-competitive contracts and awards

House: The Committee continues a provision requiring the Secretaries of Labor, 

Health and Human Services, and Education to submit a quarterly report to the 

Committees on Appropriations containing certain information on 

noncompetitive contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements exceeding 

$500,000 in value.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Status of Balances

House: The Committee continues provision requesting quarterly reports on the status 

of balances of appropriations from the Departments of Labor, Health and 

Human Services and Education.

Response: The Department plans to comply with this directive.
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Nonrecurring Expenses Fund

Explanatory 

Statement : As part of the annual Congressional Justification, the Department is directed 

to include the anticipated balances available in and uses of the Nonrecurring 

Expenses Fund for the current and budget fiscal years. Additionally, the 

Department is directed to provide the Committees quarterly reports for all 

ongoing projects. The report shall include the following for each project: a 

description and timeline for each project; the date the project was notified to 

the Committees; total obligations to date; obligations for the prior fiscal year; 

anticipated obligations for current fiscal year; and any expected future 

obligations; and the total unobligated balance in the Fund.

Response: The Department has provided with the first part of this directive by providing 

the requested information in the Salaries and Expenses Overview. The 

Department plans to comply with the second part of this directive—providing 

quarterly reports for all ongoing projects.

ESSER Spending Transparency

Explanatory

Statement : The Department is directed to strengthen its support for the timely and 

effective expenditure of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief 

(ESSER) funds, including amounts dedicated to addressing student learning 

through the implementation of evidence based interventions to meet students' 

academic and mental health needs. The Department must also enhance 

transparency on key categories of actual and planned expenditure of ESSER 

funds at the national, state and local levels.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

FTE Operating Plan

Explanatory

Statement: Not later than 30 days after enactment, the Department shall provide the 

Committees an operating plan identifying the total FTE and non-personnel 

allocations supported by the program administration appropriation in total for 

the Department, and FTE and non-personnel allocations for each program 

office supported by the program administration appropriation provided in this 

Act. In addition, the Department shall provide monthly the number of on- board 

staff, attrition, approved hires not yet on-boarded and projected full-year FTE 

usage, including approved hires, and actual non-personnel expenses, for each 

program office supported by, and in total for, the program administration 

appropriation provided in this Act. ln addition, the Department shall separately 
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identify in such plans and reports total FTE allocations supported by other 

funding sources.

Response: The Department plans to comply with this directive.

Customer Service 

House: The 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 2024 

Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: Federal Student Aid (FSA) is the Department’s primary customer service 

agency. To demonstrate FSA’s commitment to customer service, the FSA FY 

2023 – FY 2027 Strategic Plan1 includes a goal to Improve Customer Service 

and Outcomes for Students and Borrowers. To achieve this goal, FSA is 

working to simplify the student loan repayment process, enhance the quality of 

customer service call centers and loan servicing operations, engage with 

stakeholders to improve delivery of student aid, and enhance the process of 

responding to complaints and inquiries regarding financial aid products and 

services. 

The Department will also assess progress on FSA’s customer service through 

its Fiscal Year 2022 - 2026 Strategic Plan and associated performance 

indicators. The Department publishes the fiscal year results in the Annual 

Performance Report. Performance indicators: include, but are not limited to 

the following:

• Percentage of contractor interactions reviewed that received a passing 

score.

• Percentage of contractors that achieve at least 95% accuracy in 

performing tasks.

• Satisfaction survey scores associated with the Free Application for 

Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application.

Evidence-Based Grants and Policy

House: The Committee requests an update in the fiscal year 2024 Congressional 

Budget Justification on implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-based 

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

1 https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/FY202327StrategicPlan.pdf
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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: In the Fiscal Year 2022–2026 Learning Agenda, the Department proposed six 

focus areas for evidence building. By strengthening the evidence base in 

these areas, the Department will be better able to meet its mission of 

promoting student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by 

fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. The 

Department’s six focus areas for strengthening evidence are:

• Address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, educators, 

and faculty. 

• Promote equity in student access to educational resources, opportunities, 

and inclusive environments. 

• Support a diverse and talented educator workforce and professional 

growth to strengthen student learning. 

• Meet students’ social, emotional, and academic needs. 

• Increase postsecondary value by focusing on equity-conscious strategies 

to address affordability, completion, post-enrollment success, and support 

for inclusive institutions.

• Effectively manage federal student aid programs.

In the Department’s Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Evaluation and EvidenceBuilding Plan, the Department summarizes all implementation, outcomes, and 

programs evaluations undertaken by the National Center for Education 

Evaluation and Regional Assistance. The plan includes new work that is under 

consideration for fiscal year 2023 well as continuing activities begun in prior 

years. Wherever possible, the Department intends to use its Learning Agenda 

to guide decision-making about where to invest evidence-building resources. 

Additionally, the Department hopes to develop new mechanisms for building 

evidence, including new partnerships with external researchers that provide 

opportunities for answering questions of shared interest.

Investments In Impoverished Areas 

House: The Committee is deeply appreciative to the Department for its thorough work 

on a report on educational investments in impoverished areas, particularly in 
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persistent poverty counties and in other high poverty census tracts as 

described in House Report 117–81. The Committee directs the Department to 

update the report to include persistent poverty percentages for competitions in 

fiscal year 2022 once those data are available.

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 this 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 directs 

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

2024 Congressional Budget Justification.

Response: The Department continues to promote resources addressing lead in drinking

water as appropriate through our Green Strides School Sustainability 

Resource Hub and through its monthly ED Infrastructure and Sustainability 

news. The Department coordinates regularly with the EPA on topics including, 

but not limited to, lead in water prevention, and also bilaterally on an asneeded basis with both EPA’s Office of Ground Water, which houses this 

work, and also their Office of Children’s Health Protection, which 

encompasses other topics pertaining to children’s environmental health. 

State and Local Report Cards

Explanatory

Statement : The Department is directed to, not later than 6 months after enactment of this 

Act, submit to the Committees and to the Committees of Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and of Education and Labor of the House 

of Representatives a report outlining actions taken to bring States into 

compliance with all ESEA annual reporting requirements, particularly for those 

States that have yet to come into full compliance; common implementation 

obstacles facing States in complying with such requirements; and efforts to 

improve the accessibility, quality, and utility of this information.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Supporting Principals and School Leaders

Explanatory

Statement: The Department is directed to issue guidance to SEAs and LEAs on the use of 

Federal funds across various programs, including Title I-A and Title II-A of the 
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ESEA, for implementing evidence based-strategies to recruit, prepare, 

support, and retain strong principals and school leaders.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Teacher and School Leader Diversity Guidance

Explanatory

Statement : The Department is directed to release guidance on how formula funds across 

various programs, including Title I-A, Title II-A, Title III, Title V-8, and Title VI 

of the ESEA, Title III of the HEA, and Part B of the IDEA may be used by 

SEAs, LEAs and IHEs to increase teacher and school leader diversity, 

including through pre-service support, enhancing preparation, providing on 

the-job support, and strengthening retention and promotion policies.

Response: The Department will comply with this directive.

Predispute Nondisclosure and Nondisparagement Clauses 

House: The Committee recognizes that harassment, including sexual harassment and 

assault, continue to be pervasive in the workplace, and that the use of 

predispute nondisclosure and nondisparagement clauses as conditions of 

employment can perpetuate illegal conduct by silencing survivors and 

shielding perpetrators. The Committee directs the Department to include 

proposals in its fiscal year 2024 Congressional Budget Justification to 

eliminate the use of grants and contracts to employers that use this practice.

Response: The Department is not prepared to provide proposals at this time. The 

Department will work with OMB to explore options for the elimination of predispute non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses among its award 

recipients and report back to the Committees later this fiscal year. 

Performance Measures 

House: The 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 2024 

Congressional Budget Justification.
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Response: The Department develops two-year Agency Priority Goals (APGs) and

publishes quarterly updates on the progress of APGs on Performance.gov1. 

Currently the Department is monitoring and reporting on three fiscal year

2022-2023 APGs. Updates include progress on performance indicators and 

milestones, as well as narrative updates that demonstrate the Department’s 

efforts and outcomes.

1 https://www.performance.gov/agencies/ed/
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Activities:

Salaries and Expenses

(Department of Education Organization Act)

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2024 Authorization: Indefinite

Budget Authority:

 2023

Appropriation

2024

Request Change

Personnel Compensation and Benefits 

Costs $287,429 $321,181 +$33,752

Non-Personnel Costs 139,478 187,178 +47,700

Total 426,9071 508,359 +$81,452

FTE 1,525 1,625 +100

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 Multilingual and English Learners2

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

1 The Department is planning to fund Building Modernization activities in FY 2023 through the Nonrecurring Expenses 

Fund.

2 The Administration is requesting to amend the Department of Education Organization Act to rename the Office of 

English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient 

Students to the Office of Multilingual and English Learners and elevate the Director of that office to the Assistant 

Secretary level. All references to this office within this justification will use the proposed name.
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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 

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) 

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

20221 387,907

2023 419,907

FY 2024 BUDGET REQUEST

The Administration is requesting $508.4 million for the fiscal year 2024 Salaries and Expenses 

budget, $81.5 million more than the fiscal year 2023 appropriation. The requested increase is 

needed to keep pace with inflation, pay increases, physical and information technology (IT) 

security needs, and other Government requirements prompted by IT security breaches. While 

recent Program Administration appropriations increases have helped the Department reverse 

downward trends in staffing (see historical FTE usage table below), staff levels remain at an 

unsustainable level given the increase in ongoing work demands. The fiscal year 2024 request 

for Program Administration places great importance on strengthening and improving the 

Department’s capacity to effectively and efficiently carryout its mission, including core 

grantmaking functions.

1 Beginning in FY 2022, administrative expenses for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) were appropriated 

separately in the IES account.
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Program Administration FTE Usage (Fiscal Year 2015 – FY 2024)

FY 

2015

FY 

2016

FY 

2017

FY 

2018

FY 

2019

FY 

2020

FY 

2021

FY 

20221

FY 

2023 

Est.1

FY 

2024 

Est.1

1,729 1,699 1,572 1,419 1,346 1,334 1,414 1,486 1,525 1,625

1 For comparability, fiscal years 2015 through 2021 FTE amounts exclude FTE for the Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), which are now funded separately under the IES Program Administration 

appropriation.

In addition to staffing, IT modernization and cybersecurity are critical areas of importance and 

require additional resources to improve the performance of the Department and address risks. 

Furthermore, there has been a significant increase in congressional interest, correspondence 

briefings, and hearings that the agency must respond to in a timely manner. This budget request 

continues the Department’s trajectory to meet present and future demands and addresses the 

funding needed to deliver on these priorities including implementing cybersecurity directives 

under Executive Order 14028 and OMB Memorandum M-22-09.

The chart below provides detail on the Program Administration request by type of cost.

STAFFING AND COSTS SUMMARY

The fiscal year 2024 request for Program Administration would support 1,625 Full-time 

equivalents (FTE), an increase of 100 FTE above fiscal year 2023. The request also includes 

government-wide pay increases of 4.6 percent for fiscal year 2023 and 5.2 percent for fiscal 

year 2024.

Contracts

26.5%, $134.9

Other Non-Personnel 

4.9%, $24.7

Overhead

(Rent)

5.4%, $27.6

Personnel 

Compensation & 

Benefits

63.2%, $321.2

FY 2024 Salaries & Expenses Costs by Category

($ in millions)

PC&B and fixed overhead costs comprise about 68 percent of the Program Administration budget.
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Personnel Compensation and Benefits (PC&B) Costs

The Department is dedicated to serving America’s diverse students, families, educators, 

institutions, and communities, despite unprecedented challenges and uncertainties. Secretary 

Cardona has articulated his overarching focus on improving educational equity and meeting the 

needs of students. Secretary Cardona’s goal and expectation is that the Department will bring 

excellence in all it does, a sense of common vision and purpose, and the confidence that the 

Department will do more for the nation it serves through innovation and inclusive and effective 

partnerships.

Central to the fiscal year 2024 Program and Administration request is acquiring staff resources 

to support the Department’s Strategic Vision and ongoing core mission activities, including 

grantmaking functions, while addressing expanding demands, including complex statutory 

requirements, Freedom of Information Act inquiries, as well as Government Accountability and 

Office of Inspector General compliance reviews and audits. The fiscal year 2024 funds 

requested are necessary not only to cover the impacts of built-in increases, but to eliminate 

capacity gaps that are currently jeopardizing the Department’s ability to meet the Department’s 

core mission. 

The fiscal year 2024 request includes $321.2 million for Personnel Compensation and Benefits 

to support five program and eight staff offices. This is an increase of $33.8 million from fiscal 

year 2023. The increase would support 100 additional FTE (+$18.5 million) and a proposed 5.2 

percent pay raise, and projected benefits increases (+$14.7 million). Personnel Compensation 

and Benefits for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) are now being requested in the IES 

Program Administration account and are included separately in the IES budget submission.

For several offices in the Department, ongoing work related to pandemic recovery is expected to 

outlast budgetary resources previously appropriated for Program Administration to fund the 

work. For example, the dedicated, supplemental administrative funding provided to administer 

new programs under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations 

Act (CRRSAA) expires at the end of fiscal year 2023, and the Department does not expect any 

supplemental American Rescue Plan (ARP) administrative funding to be available in fiscal year 

2024. In fiscal years 2020 through 2023, these offices could depend on supplemental funding 

provided through the combination of CARES/CRRSAA/ARP to support their FTE costs; 

however, Program Administration funding is needed in fiscal year 2024 to support the costs for 

these FTE.

The Administration is also proposing to elevate the currently named Office of English Language 

Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient 

Students. This budget request reflects a proposal to rename that office the Office of Multilingual 

and English Learners, elevate the office leader to an Assistant Secretary position (to be 

nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate), and centralize the core work of 

supporting and strengthening educational opportunities for English Learners (ELs) within the 

office. Additional staff capacity is needed and requested to carry out this proposal. 
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Detail on workload demands that require additional FTE include the following (by office):

• 14 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Finance and Operations (OFO) to:

o Enforce payment integrity laws and prevent improper payments;

o Sustain effective ED-wide staffing levels, close Ed-wide technical competency gaps, 

implement service level agreements, and increase ED employee engagement;

o Maintain the security posture of and modernize the Department’s business support 

systems (e.g., FMSS, CPSS, G5) and mitigate potential operational risks;

o Manage the consolidation of three Washington, D.C. office locations into one 

federally owned building to generate tens of millions of annual rent savings in future 

years;

o Address increasing enterprise risk management workload and demand for data 

analysis support. 

• 13 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education 

(OESE) to focus on pre-grant award work, monitoring, technical assistance, data analysis, 

data and financial reporting, and other administrative work that is required to effectively 

manage OESE’s grant program workload. Additional staff is also needed to address 

Congressionally directed spending and ongoing COVID-related work (which starting in FY 

2024 must be funded almost entirely out of Program Administration).

• 12 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) to address 

its increasing workload, consisting of grants management; responding to requests for 

information from Congress and the public; and use of data and evidence to inform and 

improve practices. Funding for additional FTE is also needed to address Congressionally 

directed spending and ongoing COVID-related work (which starting in FY 2024 must be 

funded almost entirely out of Program Administration).

• 11 additional FTE are requested in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to: 

o Build up the Department’s cybersecurity capacity to reduce and proactively address 

threats;

o Fully operationalize the Department’s IT Governance and Investment Management 

program;

o Meet the need to mature the Department’s Rehabilitation Act Section 501/508 

program to promote accessibility;

o Execute the Department’s Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Records 

Management programs.

• 10 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development (OPEPD) to: 

o Formulate and execute an increasingly complex budget portfolio;

o Faithfully execute student privacy laws;

o Advance data collection and analyses;

o Formulate and implement effective education policy that improve student success.

• 9 additional FTE are requested in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) to address legal 

work on increasing bodies of work relating to elementary and secondary education, 

postsecondary education, and ongoing implementation of laws including the Bipartisan 

Safer Communities Act; to facilitate responses to information requests from Congress; and 

to ensure adequate legal support for the Department’s regular operations, including in the 

area of procurement law.
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• 8 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services (OSERS) to increase technical assistance to State VR agencies related to fiscal 

challenges, including the expenditure of Federal funds. 

• 6 additional FTE are requested in the Office of the Secretary (OS) to shift contractor support 

for FOIA to federal personnel. This shift is expected to help the Department more efficiently 

support operational needs. Non-pay contractual funding has been reduced in fiscal year 

2024 accordingly.

• 5 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Multilingual and English Learners as an initial 

investment in providing additional capacity as the Department both elevates the critical role 

of Title III in producing high-quality language instruction to support English Learners and 

centralizes the core work of supporting and strengthening educational opportunities for 

English Learners within the office. 

• 3 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education 

(OCTAE) to support the Agency's work to build critical workforce skills and address 

shortages, including for information technology and data management, and work related to 

the correctional education, career and college pathways, and community colleges program 

areas, and postsecondary students' basic needs. 

• 3 additional FTE are requested in the Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO) to better 

communicate with the public. OCO’s digital strategies have grown over the last year, 

yielding social media outreach and video streaming numbers never seen before at the 

Department, and more staff are needed as OCO adapts to an ever-increasing universe of 

communications platforms. 

• 3 additional FTE are requested in the Office of the Deputy Secretary (ODS), contingent on 

final appropriations, to help further the Administration’s STEM agenda.

• 2 additional FTE are requested in the Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) to help staff the 

newly created Office of the Chief Economist, which will:

o Provide the best-possible analysis and advice to guide real-time policymaking;

o Conduct rigorous research to further key elements of the Department's learning 

agenda;

o Build a culture of experimentation, including partnerships with leading social science 

researchers to pilot-test new ways to serve students and borrowers; and

o Serve as liaison to the research community so that leading researchers' insights and 

evidence inform our agenda and we can work together to build the evidence and 

research base on how best to strengthen education.

• 1 additional FTE in the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA) is requested 

to handle the Higher Education Congressional Constituent Case Management portfolio and 

handle the Congressional correspondence demands. 

Non-Personnel Costs

The total request for Non-Personnel activities for fiscal year 2024 is $187.2 million, $47.7 million 

above the fiscal year 2023 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. 
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Departmental Centralized Services 

An estimated 73 percent of the total non-personnel budget request covers Program 

Administration’s share of the Department’s centralized services. The centralized services 

request totals $136.4 million for fiscal year 2024, $34.6 million above the fiscal year 2023 

appropriation. This amount excludes Building Modernization costs, which are discussed 

separately in this Congressional Justification starting on page 32. Cybersecurity projects and 

modernization of the Department’s contracts and grants systems make up most of this increase. 

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 needs to continue to 

reduce rent costs.

Departmental Centralized Services

(dollars in thousands)

Item 2022 Actual

2023 

Appropriation 2024 Request

Change from

2023 to 2024

Rent $25,915 $27,253 $27,639 $386

Other Central Support 28,423 36,825 42,843 6,018

Centralized Services-IT 40,836 37,691 65,923 28,232

Centralized Services $95,174 $101,769 $136,405 $34,636

The following section provides information on projects for centralized services.

Centralized services - IT

IT Security

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

Department’s IT systems. The Program Administration request for these projects, known 

collectively as the Enterprise Cybersecurity Program, is $35.5 million, $12.8 million more than 

fiscal year 20231. The total request across all accounts for these projects is $86.4 million.

The increase will bolster the Department’s cybersecurity capacity and meet directives as set 

forth in Executive Order (EO) 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. EO 14028 

1 Approximately $15.0 million in Development, Modernization, and Enhancement activities for the 

Enterprise Cybersecurity Program is being budgeted for in FY 2023 using the Department’s Nonrecurring 

Expenses Fund.
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mandated several initiatives to protect the Department of Education’s network and data. 

Information Assurance Services plans to make continued enhancements in response to this 

mandate to ensure the integrity of the department’s network and data, as well as to prevent 

potential IT security breaches. As mentioned in the Salary and Benefits section, additional FTE 

are also required to execute functions necessary to meet the requirements of EO 14028.

Addressing cybersecurity threats is difficult and complex and it will take the efforts of everyone 

in the Department. Adversaries become more emboldened each year to exploit the 

Department’s data. The total non-pay request of $86.4 million ensures sufficient funding to 

implement Executive Order 14028 expected outcomes for FY 24, specifically focusing on: Zero 

Trust Architecture ($4.0 million), Security Engineering and Architecture Support ($3.2 million), 

Highly Adaptive Cyber Augmentation Services ($4.7 million), Identification, Credentialing, and 

Access Management (ICAM) Solution ($8.5 million), Pivot I Security ($4.3 million), Cyber Data 

Lake ($34.8 million) and Bound E Discovery and Reporting ($4.1 million).

If these initiatives and federal positions remain unfunded in fiscal year 2024, the Department will 

not be able to fully comply with many areas of EO 14028 and subordinate actions including but 

not limited to M-21-31, M-22-09, and multiple associated CISA binding operational directives 

and Emergency Directives. Aside from the compliance impacts noted, if funding is not provided 

the Department will be more susceptible to a rapidly evolving threat scape and be less effective 

in defending the Department against breaches and outages.

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.

The $23.8 million budgeted for fiscal year 2024 for PIVOT is a decrease of $0.5 million from 

fiscal year 2023. The requested amount is solely for the Program Administration account’s 

shared costs. The Department’s total budget for this investment is $57.0 million. The balance of 

the funding needed is included in the budget requests for the other Departmental Management 

accounts.

EDCAPS

The Program Administration request for EDCAPS is $11.4 million, an increase of $4.2 million 

above the fiscal year 2023 appropriation primarily for the modernization of the Department’s 

Contracts and Purchasing Support System. Additional EDCAPS funding is provided by the 

Department’s other Salaries and Expenses accounts. The total request across all accounts for 

these projects is $39.4 million.
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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.

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

occurring. In fiscal year 2022, the Department’s Office of Business Support Services (OBSS) 

began work on the task to modify the Intra-governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) 

Settlement Interface to enhance the existing manual settlement process to include automated 

invoice creation, invoice matching, and payment clearing where supporting subledger data 

elements exist in the Treasury settlement file or can be derived from prescribed business rules. 

As Trading Partners plan to start executing new orders in Treasury’s G-Invoicing by October 1, 

2022, those changes impacting IPAC settlement will be considered with this enhancement.

The Department will continue to enhance FMSS functionality in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to 

meet Treasury mandates and user needs as required.

The Contracts and Purchasing Support System (CPSS) utilizes California Analysis Center, 

Inc.’s (CACI’s) Comprizon Suite software. The Office of Business Support Services (OBSS) and 

the Contracts and Procurement Branch completed market research on the feasibility of 

implementing an end-to-end acquisition management system (AMS) that will manage the entire 

acquisition lifecycle process from planning through contract close. The Department awarded a 

contract at the end of fiscal year 2022 for the replacement of the Comprizon software. The 

procurement was protested shortly after award, which has slowed progress on the project since 

the new contractor was forced to stop work. The Department was able to begin preparations for 

system replacement, including Data Cleanup, and Architecture Validation, in the meantime. The 

Department’s intention is to continue planning, development/configuration, and implementation 

in fiscal year 2023, once the protest is finally resolved, and continuing this work in fiscal year 

2024.

The Department awarded the G5 modernization contract at the end of fiscal year 2021. The G5 

modernization effort continued in fiscal year 2022, with Module 1, the development of the ED 

Grants Platform (EGP), which will serve as the foundation for all future development work. The 

two major objectives of Module 1 are first, to upgrade the grants platform allowing the 

Department to easily incorporate future technology advancements and increasing 

responsiveness to legislative changes, and second, 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. Work on Module 1 was completed in 

December 2022 (the preliminary G5 Technology Refresh plan implements 4 modules over 4 

fiscal years). Module 1 of the G5 Technology Refresh included the development of the following:

• Overall plan for deployment of modules and data conversion;

• Platform architecture and security platform design;
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• 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.

The Department awarded a task order at the end of fiscal year 2022 for Module 2 for the 

development of the pre-award functionality that will replace the same functionality in the legacy 

system.

In fiscal years 2023 and 2024, the Department will continue the build of G5 modules according 

to the deployment plan. 

Centralized Services – Non-IT

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

to IT.

Security for Personnel and Buildings

A total of $11.6 million is requested for security-related expenses including guard services, 

background investigations, and the implementation of the Continuity of Operations Plan. This 

amount is slightly higher than the fiscal year 2023 level of $11.4 million. 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 $33.1 million.

Rent

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. The fiscal year 2024 request is $27.6 

million, an increase of $386 thousand from the fiscal year 2023 level.
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Non-Personnel excluding Centralized Services

(dollars in thousands)

Non-Personnel (excluding 

centralized Services) 2022 Actual

2023 

Appropriation 2024 Request

Change from

2023 to 2024

Other Non-Personnel (IT) $14,008 $15,396 $19,884 $4,488

Other Non-Personnel (Non-IT) 19,585 23,570 36,470 12,900

Non-Personnel (excluding 

centralized Services)

33,593 38,966 56,354 17,388

Other Non-Personnel Costs – IT

The following section provides additional information on other non-personnel projects related to 

IT.

Education Data Lake, Enterprise Analytics, and Master Data Management Solution (EDRAP)

The fiscal year 2024 budget request includes $3.0 million in funding for this project. This 

enterprise-level solution seeks to leverage data across the Department in one shared resource 

space. EDRAP seeks to become an information hub for the Department that will reduce cost, 

manage the asset inventory burden encountered by managing siloed systems, and encourage 

evidence-based data driven policy. This enterprise-wide analytic platform is a cornerstone 

investment that will provide a central access point to raw system data while maintaining 

appropriate access controls; identify common data elements across systems; link data for 

master data elements across the enterprise; provide personnel at all levels an understanding of 

key definition differences and data quality key performance indicators to facilitate improved data 

governance, quality, and standardization; catalog data throughout the ED infrastructure 

providing a data menu to empower policy decisions; deliver curated datasets for analysis and 

publication; enable ED to develop inter-department data services such as data protection and 

publication to improve data processes through burden reduction, improved efficiency, and 

decreased overall costs.

Education Stabilization Fund Public Transparency Portal

The Administration is requesting $1.4 million for the Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) Public 

Transparency Portal (PTP), an increase of $814 thousand over fiscal year 2023. This portal 

provides data management and stakeholder support services pertaining to the development and 

implementation of a reporting and transparency solution enabling the collection, cleaning, 

integration, and dissemination of education data relevant to the Education Stabilization Fund 

created by the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136). The portal will also have a public facing 

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

use for reporting requirements related to the programs that were created through the CARES 

Act funds, including the Governor’s Emergency Relief Fund (GEERF); Elementary and 

Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSERF); and Higher Education Emergency Relief 

Fund (HEERF).
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Every Website Succeeds

Every Website Succeeds (EWS) is a consolidated investment of Websites to meet the needs of 

Office of Educational Technology (OET) and the Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education. It will allow for the uninterrupted hosting, development, and maintenance of all 

websites managed through a common technology platform and contract vehicles for multiple 

program offices. It includes various information dissemination projects such as OESE.ed.gov, 

National Center for Homeless Education Website, OSS Communication Manager, National 

Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth, 

and several other OESE IT initiatives. The Administration is requesting $2.2 million in fiscal year 

2024.

Payment Integrity Monitoring Application (PIMA)

The Payment Integrity Monitoring Application (PIMA) investment whose purpose is consistent 

with the 2018 Financial Management (FM) Segment Modernization Plan to provide strong 

financial stewardship, accurate financial reporting, and well-controlled financial management 

operations to support the Department’s mission. PIMA’s goal is to build an analytic infrastructure 

to provide robust support to data-driven decision-enhance financial management and analytic 

capability using sustained technology. The amount requested in fiscal year 2024 is $1.1 million, 

an increase of $235 thousand over fiscal year 2023. The increase will continue to fund 

development of additional integrity checks and to initiate a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) 

functionality pilot program to help achieve reliable data for use in artificial intelligence integration 

into processes. Considerable development, modernization, and enhancements will continue in 

the outyears to further improve the system.

OESE Grants Management

The Administration requests $1.4 million in Program Administration funding in fiscal year 2024 

for this investment, level with 2023. This contract keeps the Impact Aid Grant System online and 

accessible to Department, Local Educational Agency (LEA), and State Educational Agency 

users. The requested funding will also support continuous monitoring capabilities in compliance 

with Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 guidance as well as IPV6 requirements in accordance with 

Department guidance. Funding also supports developer helpdesk support for Department and 

LEA users, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) efforts, automated regression test 

scripting, support for ongoing software maintenance activities, FedRAMP security patches, and 

security documentation to meet Authorization to Operate (ATO) requirements.

Enterprise Risk Management Services and Tools

The Administration is requesting a total of $1.0 million for fiscal year 2024 for Enterprise Risk 

Management Services and Tools, level with fiscal year 2023. 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:
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• 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.

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 selected projects not related to IT. 

Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) Challenge

The’ Office of Educational Technology’s (OET), Digital Equity Education DEER Challenge, as a 

direct follow-up to the accomplishments of the DEER Initiative, would call on stakeholder groups 

to demonstrate solutions that align with OET’s recommended action steps. The Department is 

requesting $1.2 million for this new initiative in fiscal year 2024. 

Comprehensive Data Inventory Support (CDIS)

This new initiative, for which $700 thousand is being requested in fiscal year 2024, is intended 

to assist the Department in completing and improving the comprehensive data inventory 

required in the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act, and in 

support of the Data Management objective to improve Data Access and Dissemination.

The Department shares a substantial number of data assets openly but has not maintained a 

complete inventory of those data assets as statutorily required. The IT investment for the Open 

Data Platform provides the capability for completing that inventory, and subsequently finding 

data assets by searching the inventory. This project (CDIS) aids in leveraging that capability by 

collecting additional descriptive information for the data assets, recording that descriptive 

information in the Open Data Platform, and organizing and tagging the data assets to improve 

the ability for both external researchers and Department analysts to locate and access relevant 

data assets. The project will enable the Department to incorporate the over 15,000 data assets 

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will also improve the Department’s data management through multiple stages of the data 

lifecycle by designing and implementing process improvements to ensure new data assets are 

properly recorded in the comprehensive data inventory as they are developed, thus avoiding 

continued “catch up” efforts.

OMB Circular 123 Initiative

This project supports internal control activities for both Appendix A and Appendix C of OMB 

Circular A-123, including those outlined in the Department’s Internal Control Compliance 

Framework. Additionally, support related to activities that strengthen internal controls, such as 

monitoring operations using key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics would be included in 

the scope of work. The budget request includes $1.7 million in fiscal year 2024 to perform this 

work.

Tiered Data Access

The purpose of this new initiative is to create a program of tiered access to ED’s restricted data 

that protects personally identifiable information, as required by the Privacy Act, and aligns with 

the Evidence Act requirement that federal agencies make all data assets open by default. The 

$600 thousand requested for this project in fiscal year 2024 will primarily be used to fund the 

salaries and data resources of external researchers hired on term appointments to conduct 

approved research projects using ED’s restricted data.

Enterprise Data Infrastructure Support Services (EDISS)

This contract will provide critical expert support to the development, operations, and 

maintenance of the EDRAP IT investment, 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. $1.0 million in new funding is being requested in fiscal 

year 2024 for the EDISS contract.

Employee-Centric Communications (Employee Experience)

The Department's workforce profile provides an opportunity for the Department to position itself 

as a leading innovator of a diverse, 21st century workforces' employee experience. The 

Department can accomplish this by creating an empowering, elevated, and inclusive employee 

experience that enables employees to make a meaningful, mission-focused impact in 

communities across the country. A critical part of employee experience is employee 

engagement, which enables productivity, growth, and retention. A dynamic, human-centered 

internal communications ecosystem supports each of these components with communications 

tactics and systems centered on mission, employee, and customer needs. Contractual funding 

in the amount of $500,000 is requested for this project.
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Enterprise Data Solutions for Support Efficiency and Modernization (EDSSEM)

In fiscal year 2024, $910,000 is requested for the Enterprise Data Solutions for Support 

Efficiency and Modernization (EDSSEM) contract, $610,000 more than fiscal year 2023. 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 increase would fund needs related to implementation and support for Data 

Strategy objectives. In fiscal year 2024, we anticipate a new Data Strategy will be in place and 

the expanded efforts would focus on the scaled execution of those critical agency goals and 

objectives encumbered in that new Data Strategy.

Privacy Safeguards

The Administration’s fiscal year 2024 request includes $500,000 in OPEPD to continue the 

privacy safeguards work for the Department, which includes contract personnel with expertise in 

privacy law and cybersecurity mandates within Federal Government regarding and governing 

the collection, use, transfer, and protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
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Building Modernization

(Department of Education Organization Act)

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2024 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) 

2019 0

2020 0

2021 0

2022 $7,0002

2023 $7,0003

FY 2024 BUDGET REQUEST

The Administration is requesting $19.3 million in fiscal year 2024 for Building Modernization 

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

the Department’s comprehensive program and to ensure 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, DC: the Lyndon Baines Johnson Headquarters Building (LBJ), Potomac Center 

1 The Department is planning to fund Building Modernization activities in FY 2023 through the 

Nonrecurring Expenses Fund.

2 Of this amount, $4.8 million was made available under the Building Modernization activity.

3 Of this amount, $0.0 million is expected to be made available under the Building Modernization activity, 

since the Department is planning to fund Building Modernization activities in FY 2023 through the 

Nonrecurring Expenses Fund.

2023 Appropriation 2024 Request Change

01 $19,250 +$19,250
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Plaza (PCP), and Union Center Plaza (UCP). The Department previously developed a 

staggered renovation and relocation plan to fit staff into two buildings, LBJ and PCP. This 

consolidation project has been adjusted post-pandemic to a more aggressive reduction in 

leased space in the headquarters region. The new Building Modernization Program goal is to 

vacate UCP 247,000 square feet at $12 million annual rent, and PCP 290,000 square feet at 

$18 million annual rent in 2025. This reduction of 537,000 square feet in Washington, DC will 

provide a rent savings of $30 million annually.

To accomplish this goal, the Department requires funding to decommission, design, renovate 

and construct the 6th floor ($8 million in 2024) at LBJ. The cost to renovate floors in LBJ will 

provide space to support those working on-site at LBJ.

The Department is receiving financial and logistical support from GSA for this project, contingent 

upon being able to provide the funding outline above.

Headquarters Offices Modernization and Consolidation

• PCP Decommissioning: The goal of this project is to move personnel, dispose of 

furniture, fixtures and equipment, decommission and repay concessions on four floors in 

2023 and four floors in 2024. Funding required to accomplish this renovation is $8.02

million in FY 2024.

• LBJ 6th floor renovation: This project is to renovate the 6th floor of LBJ which will 

allow Ed to continue the Headquarters consolidation. The construction renovation 

amount of $7.95 million is requested in fiscal year 2024.

• LBJ Facility Upgrades: The Department requests $1.5 million in 2024 to upgrade 

common areas in anticipation of a larger workforce consolidated into LBJ.

Regional Offices Modernization and Consolidation

• Philadelphia Regional Office Relocation: The Department plans to move from its 

current location at the Wanamaker Building to the William J. Green Federal building. 

This new location will provide a reduction in space of approximately 50%. The 

Department is requesting $460,000 in 2024 for construction and furniture.

• Cleveland Field Office: The Department will relocate from a commercial property to a 

Federal Building in 2026. The space plans are being revised to accommodate 

teleworking and a hybrid work environment with a 50% reduction in space. The project 

will require $520,000 in 2024.

• Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver and Chicago Regional Offices: The Department is 

in discussions and making plans with GSA in these Regional Offices to assess 

opportunities to reduce square footage. Where leases include multiple floors, the 
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objective is to consolidate on one floor to accommodate teleworking and a hybrid work 

environment. The Department is requesting $800,000 in 2024 to relocate personnel, 

dispose of furniture and decommission space.
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Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employment by Office

OFFICE

2022 

Actual

2023 

Appropriation

2024 

Request

Change from 

2023 to 2024

Career, Technical, and Adult Education 65 66 69 3

Chief Information Officer 90 89 100 11

Communications and Outreach 93 90 93 3

Deputy Secretary 3 17 20 3

Elementary and Secondary Education 256 267 280 13

Multilingual and English Learners 16 17 22 5

Finance and Operations 324 320 334 14

General Counsel 82 86 95 9

 

Legislation and Congressional Affairs 18 18 19 1

Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development 96 106 116 10

Postsecondary Education 134 135 147 12

Secretary 107 120 126 6

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services 190 187 195 8

Under Secretary 12 7 9 2

Total 1,4861 1,5252 1,625 100

1 FY 2022 FTE total excludes 56 FTE related to and funded by CRRSAA, and ARP Acts in various offices. 2 FY 2023 FTE total excludes 41 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 2022 Actual

2023

Appropriation 2024 Request

Change from 

2023

to 2024

Career, Technical, and Adult Education $13,034 $13,949 $15,230 $1,281

Central Information Technology 40,836 37,691 65,923 28,232

Central Support1 59,138 64,078 89,732 25,654

Chief Information Officer 17,983 19,517 22,335 2,818

Communications and Outreach 19,920 20,957 22,774 1,817

Deputy Secretary 452 3,165 3,863 698

Elementary and Secondary Education 48,864 56,034 60,088 4,054 

Multilingual and English Learners 2,547 2,684 3,649 965

Finance and Operations 67,238 68,488 77,283 8,795

General Counsel 18.086 19,657 22,272 2,615

Legislation and Congressional Affairs 3,173 3,361 3,708 347

Planning, Evaluation, and Policy 

Development 25,944 27,816 41,951 14,135

Postsecondary Education 23,297 25,112 28,640 3,528

Secretary 21,702 24,352 26,725 2,373

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services 37,176 38,628 41,595 2,967

Under Secretary 2,167 1,418 1,841 423 

Total, Budget Authority 401,557 426,907 527,609 100,702

Note: No funds are included for CRRSAA, or ARP Acts.

1 Fiscal years 2022 and 2024 include Building Modernization in Central Support. In fiscal year 2023 Building 

Modernization is expected to be funded using the Department’s Nonrecurring Expenses Fund. More information on 

this fund is provided in the Salaries and Expenses Overview Congressional Justification.
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Account Summary Table

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FISCAL YEAR 2024 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

(in thousands of dollars)

Cat 

Code 2022 Appropriation 2023 Appropriation

2024 President's 

Budget Request

FY 2024 President's Budget Request

Compared to FY 2023 Appropriation

Amount Percent

Program Administration (DEOA)

1. Salaries and expenses D 387,907 419,907 508,359 88,452 21.06%

2. Building Modernization D 7,000 7,000 19,250 12,250 175.00%

Total 394,907 426,907 527,609 100,702 23.59%

NOTES:

1) D = discretionary program; M = mandatory programs

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