Bo Giao duc Hoa Ky la mot bo cap noi cac cua Chinh phu lien bang Hoa Ky. Bo đuoc thanh lap theo Đao luat To chuc Bo Giao duc (Cong luat 96-88) va đuoc Tong thong Hoa Ky Jimmy Carter ky thanh luat ngay 17 thang 10 nam 1979 va bat đau hoat đong vao ngay 4 thang 5 nam 1980.
Đao luat To chuc Bo Giao duc chia Bo Y te, Giao duc va Phuc loi Hoa Ky thanh Bo Giao duc Hoa Ky va Bo Y te va Dich vu Nhan sinh Hoa Ky.
Bo Giao duc Hoa Ky cho đen nay la bo cap noi cac nho nhat trong tat ca cac bo khac voi khoang 5.000 nhan vien. Ten viet tat cua bo la ED, khong phai la DOE la tu viet tat cho Bo Nang luong Hoa Ky (United States Department of Energy).


Thanh phan Bo Giao duc co muc tieu la tao cac chuong trinh sinh quy cho giao duc va thuc thi cac luat ve nhan quyen va rieng tu.
Ngay 23 thang 3 nam 2007, luc 11:51 sang, Tong thong George W. Bush ky thanh luat H.R. 584 nham an đinh toa nha tong hanh dinh cua Bo Giao duc la Toa nha Bo Giao duc Lyndon Baines Johnson.[1]

Van phong Lien lac va Ngoai giao (Office of Communications and Outreach)
Van phong Tong Tu van (Office of the General Counsel)
Van phong Tong thanh tra (Office of Inspector General)
Van phong Lap phap va Quoc hoi vu (Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs)
Van phong đac trach Nhan quyen (Office for Civil Rights)
Vien Khoa hoc Giao duc (Institute of Education Sciences)
Trung tam Thong ke Giao duc Quoc gia (National Center for Education Statistics)
Khao sat Tien bo Giao duc Quoc gia (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
Trung tam Thong tin Nguon luc Giao duc (Education Resources Information Center)
Van phong Cai cach va Sang tao (Office of Innovation and Improvement)
Van phong Tai chinh truong (Office of the Chief Financial Officer)
Van phong Quan ly (Office of Management)
Van phong Truong thong tin (Office of the Chief Information Officer)
Van phong Ke hoach, Đinh luong va Phat trien Chinh sach (Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development)
So Ngan sach (Budget Service)
So Quan ly Rui ro (Risk Management Service)
Vien chuc truong đieu hanh (Chief Operating Officer)
Van phong Thu truong
Van phong Giao duc hau Trung hoc (Office of Postsecondary Education)
Van phong Giao duc nguoi lon va Huan nghe (Office of Vocational and Adult Education)
Van phong Tro giup Sinh vien Lien bang (Office of Federal Student Aid)
Ban Co van Tong thong ve Đai hoc va Cao đang Bo lac (President's Advisory Board on Tribal Colleges and Universities)
Ban Co van Tong thong ve Đai hoc va Cao đang Lich su cua nguoi My goc chau Phi (President's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
Van phong Pho Bo truong
Van phong Giao duc Trung va Tieu hoc (Office of Elementary and Secondary Education)
Van phong Giao duc Di dan (Office of Migrant Education)
Uy ban Co van Tong thong đac trach cai thien giao duc danh cho nguoi My goc Hispanic.
Van phong đac trach ngon ngu tieng Anh, nang cao ngon ngu va thanh tuu hoc van cho nhung hoc sinh co trinh đo tieng Anh han che
Van phong đac trach dich vu phuc hoi chuc nang va giao duc đac biet (Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services)
Vien Nghien cuu Phuc hoi chuc nang va Khuyet tat Quoc gia (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
Van phong đac trach cac chuong trinh giao duc đac biet (Office of Special Education Programs)
Co quan quan ly dich vu Phuc hoi chuc nang (Rehabilitation Services Administration)
Van phong đac trach an toan va bao đam truong hoc mien nhiem chat ngay nghien (Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools)
Van phong Cai tien va Sang tao (Office of Innovation and Improvement)
Cac to chuc lien bang co lien quan
Hoi đong va Uy ban Co van
Ban Quan tri Kiem tra Quoc gia
Vien xoa mu chu Quoc gia Luu tru ngay 28 thang 4 nam 2009 tai Wayback Machine
Uy ban Lien co quan Giao duc Lien bang (Federal Interagency Committee on Education)
Cac to chuc đuoc lien bang ho tro
Đai hoc Gallaudet
Đai hoc Howard
Vien Ky thuat Quoc gia danh cho nguoi cam điec (National Technical Institute for the Deaf)


Chong đoi Tong thong Ronald Reagan hua hen trong suot ky bau cu tong thong nam 1980 rang ong se loai bo Bo Giao duc khoi Noi cac Hoa Ky, nhung ong khong the lam gi đuoc truoc mot ha vien co đa so đang vien Dan chu. Nam 1982, trong mot bai dien van ve tinh trang lien bang, ong hua rang: 

Trong suot thap nien 1980, viec bai bo Bo Giao duc la mot phan trong chuong trinh nghi su cua Đang Cong hoa nhung chinh phu cua Tong thong George H. W. Bush tu choi thuc hien y tuong nay.
Nam 1996, Đang Cong hoa đa đua ra viec bai bo Bo Giao duc nhu la mot phan quan trong trong nhung loi hua hen van đong cua ho. Ho goi no la mot su can thiep khong đung cach cua lien bang vao cong viec noi bo thuoc ve gia đinh, tieu bang va đia phuong. Phe Cong hoa noi rang: 

 Trong suot cuoc van đong bau cu tong thong nam 1996, Thuong nghi si Bob Dole hua rang: "Chung ta se cat bo Bo Giao duc."
Nam 2000, mot to chuc van đong cho y tuong ve quyen rieng tu va han che anh huong cua chinh phu thuoc Đang Cong hoa co ten goi la Republican Liberty Caucus đa thong qua mot nghi quyet loai bo Bo Giao duc.
Nam 2008, ung cu vien tong thong Ron Paul van đong tranh cu tong thong trong đo ong to ra chong đoi Bo Giao duc.
Ngay 20/03/2025 tong thong Trump ky sac lenh giai the Bo Giao Duc Hoa Ky. https://vnexpress.net/ong-trump-ky-sac-lenh-giai-the-bo-giao-duc-my-4863968.html


Tham khao Cabinetmakers: Story of the Three-Year Battle to Establish the U.S. Department of Education. Author: Robert V. Heffernan. 2001. ISBN 978-0-595-15870-6


Lien ket ngoai United States Department of Education Official Website
How is the Department of Education Organized
ERIC Digests Luu tru ngay 16 thang 4 nam 2021 tai Wayback Machine - Informational digests on educational topics produced by the U.S. Department of Education before 1983.