Title 20 › CHAPTER 70 — STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part B — Flexibility in the Use of Administrative and Other Funds › § 7825
Within 60 days after December 10, 2015, the Secretary must count and post on the Department website how many full‑time equivalent employees worked on each education program or project as it existed the day before December 10, 2015. The Secretary must also count, within the same 60 days, how many FTEs worked on any program or project that has been eliminated or consolidated since that date. Within 1 year after December 10, 2015, the Secretary must reduce the Department’s workforce by the number tied to those eliminated or consolidated programs. The Secretary must also report to Congress in that year with the FTE counts per program, the number linked to eliminated or consolidated programs, how the cuts were made, the average salary of the eliminated positions, and the average salary of current program staff broken down by job function.
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20 U.S.C. § 7825
Title 20, Education
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102