FTE Associated with ESEA Programs in 2016

In response to the reporting requirement in section 8205 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), as shown below, the Department has 

calculated that 227 full-time equivalent employees (FTE) worked on programs funded, and effectively 

authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, on December 9, 2015, the day before 

enactment of the ESSA. The ESSA did not reauthorize six of these programs – Advanced Placement 

(1 FTE), Elementary and Secondary School Counseling (3.5 FTE), Mathematics and Science Partnerships 

(1 FTE), Physical Education Program (3 FTE), School improvement Grants (5 FTE), and Transition to 

Teaching (2 FTE), for a total of 15.5 FTE. However, Congress included funding for five of the six 

programs in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which was passed following enactment of the 

ESSA. Therefore, while eliminated, the Department will carry out activities for those five programs for 

one additional year, or through the end of FY 2016. The only program not reauthorized and not funded 

was Transition to Teaching. 

‘‘SEC. 8205. DEPARTMENT STAFF.

‘‘The Secretary shall—

‘‘(1) not later than 60 days after the date of enactment

of the Every Student Succeeds Act, identify the number of

Department full-time equivalent employees who worked on or

administered each education program or project authorized

under this Act, as such program or project was in effect on

the day before such date of enactment, and publish such

information on the Department’s website;

‘‘(2) not later than 60 days after such date of enactment,

identify the number of full-time equivalent employees who

worked on or administered each program or project authorized

under this Act, as such program or project was in effect on

the day before such date of enactment, that has been eliminated

or consolidated since such date of enactment;

‘‘(3) not later than 1 year after such date of enactment,

reduce the workforce of the Department by the number of

full-time equivalent employees the Department identified under

paragraph (2); and

‘‘(4) not later than 1 year after such date of enactment,

report to Congress on—

‘‘(A) the number of full-time equivalent employees associated

with each program or project authorized under this

Act and administered by the Department;

‘‘(B) the number of full-time equivalent employees who

were determined to be associated with eliminated or

consolidated programs or projects described in paragraph

(2);

‘‘(C) how the Secretary has reduced the number of

full-time equivalent employees as described in paragraph

(3);

‘‘(D) the average salary of the full-time equivalent

employees described in subparagraph (B) whose positions

were eliminated; and

‘‘(E) the average salary of the full-time equivalent

employees who work on or administer a program or project
authorized by the Department under this Act,

disaggregated by employee function within each such program

or project.’’

A list of the programs funded in 2015 and 2016 that were authorized by the ESEA as in effect on the day 

before the date of enactment of the ESSA follows:

Program/Activity FTE

21st Century Community Centers 7.0

Advanced Placement 1.0

Alaska Native Education 2.4

Arts in Education 8.0

Charter Schools Grants 10.0

Comprehensive Literacy Development Grants (Striving Readers) 1.0

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling 3.5

English Language Acquisition 22.1

FIE Programs of National Significance 1.9

Full-Service Community Schools 1.4

High School Graduation Initiative (School Dropout Prevention) 3.0

Impact Aid Basic Support Payments 23.1

Impact Aid Construction 2.5

Impact Aid Facilities Maintenance 0.8

Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property 1.9

Indian Education Grants to LEAs 6.5

Indian Education National Activities 1.8

Indian Education Special Programs for Indian Children 2.0

Javits Gifted and Talented 1.0

Magnet Schools Assistance 3.8

Mathematics and Science Partnerships 1.0

Migrant State Grants 8.1

Migrant State Grants - Neglected and Delinquent 0.5

Native Hawaiian Education 3.0

Physical Education Program 3.0

Preschool Development Grants 7.0

Promise Neighborhoods 5.6

Ready to Learn Programming 0.7

Rural Education 5.7

School Improvement Grants 5.0

School Leadership 2.0

School Safety National Activities (SDFS national activities) 14.2

SEED 2.0

State Assessments 1.4

Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Improving Teacher Quality State Grants) 3.8

Teacher Incentive Fund 9.0
Program/Activity FTE

Teaching American History 0.0

Title I Grants to LEAs 48.6

Transition to Teaching 2.0

TOTAL 227.3

The FTE shown in the chart are the full-time equivalent averages for staff working directly on ESEA 

programs prior to enactment of the ESSA. In the short run, there also may be additional work resulting 

from ESSA, either because of new programs or authorities that need to be implemented.