The U.S. Department of Education (ED) developed this inventory of website content as required by Section 207(f)(2) of the E-Government Act of 2002. This inventory is intended to be comprehensive, and to represent website content from ED and all its offices.
The Department of Education is the United States government's principal agency for ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational excellence throughout the nation. The Department's primary responsibilities are to:
- Establish policies on federal financial aid for education, and distribute as well as monitor funds for more than 200 programs.
- Collect data on America's schools and disseminate research.
- Focus national attention on key educational issues.
- Prohibit discrimination and ensure equal access to education.
In preparing this inventory, ED has reviewed information collected as part of the redesign process for ED.gov, including citizen comments via e-mail, a customer survey, and usability tests; current website statistics indicating usage of existing content; and related information developed through the Information Quality Guidelines process (per Section 515 of Public Law 106-554, known as the Data Quality Act).
For more information about the Web content inventory and the E-Gov Act, please visit these links:
- Summary of Requirements from the Federal Web Content Managers Toolkit (source of the inventory worksheets)
- Section 207 of the E-Gov Act
Categories of Information Disseminated by ED Via Websites
- Column 1 lists the categories of information ED disseminates via websites.
- Column 2 indicates the priority ED assigns to Web publication of each category.
- Priority 1: Required by law, regulation, Presidential directive, or other official directive or to ensure national security.
- Priority 2: Mission-critical and essential for program operations, but not required by law, regulation, or Presidential directive (that is, information or services that are directly tied to an agency's mission and/or strategic plan).
- Priority 3: Frequently requested information or services that would improve business processes and/or customer service to the public (for example, most commonly used forms, documents, applications, transactions, etc.).
- Priority 4: Other information.
- Column 3 indicates the publication schedule for the category .
| Category | Priority | New Content/ Publication Target |
|---|---|---|
| 1,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 1,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 2,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 1,2,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 2 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 2 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 1,2,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 1,2,3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 3 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |
| 1,2 | No plans for additional content at this time beyond regular updates. |