In its own words: ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
The Treasury’s books put its net outlays at $34,717,798,418. Its own accounts, as it reported them to USAspending, show $187,970,767,574 in gross outlays: the difference is what its programs took back in and what it paid to other federal accounts, lines the Treasury’s breakdown below lists and subtracts.
Over time
Net outlays in each fiscal year, from the Treasury's September statements.
Net outlays by bureau and account, the same books as the total above. Open a line to see what is inside it. Lines in italics are subtracted: money the public paid back, and payments between federal accounts.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education$43.4B125.1%
Accelerating Achievement and Ensuring Equity$20.5B47.3%
Impact Aid$1.64B3.8%
Education Improvement Programs$6.49B14.9%
Other$14.8B34.0%
Office of Innovation and Improvement$1.29B3.7%
Office of English Language Acquisition$926M2.7%
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services$21.1B60.8%
Special Education$16.3B77.1%
Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research$4.52B21.4%
Special Institutions for Persons with Disabilities$305M1.4%
Office of Vocational and Adult Education$2.54B7.3%
Office of Postsecondary Education$3.94B11.3%
Higher Education$3.57B90.8%
Other$363M9.2%
Office of Federal Student Aid$111.2B320.4%
Student Financial Assistance$42.1B37.8%
Student Aid Administration$2.26B2.0%
Federal Student Loan Reserve Fund-$101M
Federal Direct Student Loans$64.7B58.1%
Federal Family Education Loans$2.32B2.1%
Other$38M<0.1%
Institute of Education Sciences$674M1.9%
Departmental Management$690M2.0%
Other$101M0.3%
Proprietary Receipts from the PublicMoney the public paid back to these accounts, subtracted from the total-$153.1B
Intrabudgetary TransactionsPayments between federal accounts, subtracted so nothing is counted twice$1.91B5.5%
Its federal accounts
Each federal account is one pot of money Congress appropriates, and these are the 36 this agency paid out of, by gross outlays. Each opens on USAspending.gov, which lists its programs and awards.
$96.0B in contracts, grants, loans and direct payments committed in the year. Payments to individuals are published only as totals, so they have a place but no recipient.
Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community ProjectsAssistance listing 84.215$244M0.3%
Charter SchoolsAssistance listing 84.282$225M0.2%
Education Innovation and Research (formerly Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund)Assistance listing 84.411$209M0.2%
Net outlays and the bureau breakdown are the Monthly Treasury Statement’s for September 2025, table 5. Everything else is what Department of Education reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal year 2025: its accounts, object classes and functions as gross outlays and obligations, and its contracts, grants, loans and direct payments as award obligations, by the place of performance. Awards are counted under the agency that made them.