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by Slightly less anonymous on November 13th, 2009
The United States has a Department of Education with Secretary of Education and that post is currently filled by Arne Duncan.
States do have individual Departments of Education, and either an elected or appointed official to fill the Executive Office of the Department. It varies from state to state and there are fifty states, so I don't know that information off-hand, and I'm not looking it up.
But here's an example that I looked up:
California has a Department of Education. The executive office is called State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the official filling the office is elected by the people on a nonpartisan ballot for a four-year term. The current State Superintendent of Public Instruction is Jack O'Connell.
Anyway, I hope this helps. You should be able to, if really interested look up the Department of Education for each state-the information would be on each state's government website. As far as I know, there is no general database where all of this information has been compiled and is easily accessible.
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Thank you. These you mentioned are responsible of primary and high schools right?
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by I Am Gone on November 13th, 2009
Yes, in a general, overarching sense. The US is large, and some of the states are very large as well. California for example has a Department of Education, but divides up the state into school districts and has heads of those, and their are heads above those, and below those and then boards and other things. There are a lot of people who are "responsible" but who don't necessarily have power etc. If you're asking who has the power to do certain things, that's an entirely different question.
by Slightly less anonymous on November 13th, 2009