Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/704

 93 STAT. 672

Assistant Secretaries and General Counsel, appointment and confirmation. Inspector General, appointment. 92 Stat. 1101. 5 USC app. Post, p. 692. Additional officers, appointment and confirmation. Functions.

PUBLIC LAW 96-88—OCT. 17, 1979 grams, and procedures of the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, and (ii) that appropriate officials of the Department consult with individuals responsible for making policy relating to education in the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States concerning differences over education policies, programs, and procedures and concerning the impact of the rules and regulations of the Department on the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States. (B) Local education authorities may inform the Under Secretary of any rules or regulations of the Department which are in conflict with another rule or regulation issued by any other Federal department or agency or with any other office of the Department. If the Under Secretary determines, after consultation with the appropriate Federal department or agency, that such a conflict does exist, the Under Secretary shall report such conflict or conflicts to the appropriate Federal department or agency together with recommendations for the correction of the conflict. (b)(1) There shall be in the Department— (A) an Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education; (B) an Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education; (C) an Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education; (D) an Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; (E) an Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement; (F) an Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; and (G) a General Counsel. (2) Each of the Assistant Secretaries and the General Counsel shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (c) There shall be in the Department an Inspector General appointed in accordance with the Inspector General Act of 1978 (as amended by section 508(n) of this Act). (d) There shall be in the Department four additional officers who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The officers appointed under this subsection shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe, including— (1) congressional relations functions; (2) public information functions, including the provision, through the use of the latest technologies, of useful information about education and related opportunities to students, parents, and communities; (3) functions related to monitoring parental and public participation in programs where such participation is required by law, and encouraging the involvement of parents, students, and the public in the development and implementation of departmental programs; (4) management and budget functions; (5) planning, evaluation, and policy development functions, including development of policies to promote the efficient and coordinated administration of the Department and its programs and to encourage improvements in education; and (6) functions related to encouraging and promoting the study of foreign languages and the study of cultures of other countries at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels.

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