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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§3486 Annual Report

Title 20 › CHAPTER 48 — DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › SUBCHAPTER IV — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part B — General Administrative Provisions › § 3486

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

After each fiscal year ends, the Secretary must prepare one complete report for the President to send to Congress. The report must say the Department’s goals, priorities, and plans and assess progress in three areas: meeting those goals, running and coordinating the Department more effectively, and cutting excessive rules and duplicated or fragmented federal education programs. It may include proposed laws when needed. The report must also estimate how much outside (non‑Federal) staff worked under Department contracts, give the number of contracts and subcontracts that used such staff, and state the total cost of those contracts, including contracts made under section 3475 or any other authority.

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Title 20, §3486

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(a)Contents
The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, make a single, comprehensive report to the President for transmission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during such fiscal year. The report shall include a statement of goals, priorities, and plans for the Department together with an assessment of the progress made toward—
(1)the attainment of such goals, priorities, and plans;
(2)the more effective and efficient management of the Department and the coordination of its functions; and
(3)the reduction of excessive or burdensome regulation and of unnecessary duplication and fragmentation in Federal education programs,
accompanied where necessary by recommendations for proposed legislation for the achievement of such objectives.
(b)Estimate on non-Federal personnel employed
The report required by subsection (a) shall also include an estimate of the extent of the non-Federal personnel employed pursuant to contracts entered into by the Department under section 3475 of this title or under any other authority (including any subcontract thereunder), the number of such contracts and subcontracts pursuant to which non-Federal personnel are employed, and the total cost of those contracts and subcontracts.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Reporting RequirementsFor termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. (a) of this section relating to transmission of report to Congress, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 80 of House Document No. 103–7.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3486

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110