Department of Education - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Education Index / Organizations Transcripts Robert Post ...Suddenly there was the idea that the Department of Education needed to be very much connected. USDA... ...But you have the school connection, Department of Education . You've got cities, towns, an... ...The National Football League and the Department of Education , definitely collaborations, an... Eric Waldo ...He'd actually been the head of the Department of Education at University of Chicago. When the... ...I was the deputy chief of staff at Ed [ Department of Education ] for five years. In 2012 they brough... ...so valuable. Let's go, then, to the Department of Education . You became chief of staff. Yes. ... ...hundred billion dollars goes to the Department of Education , which is double the regular budget... ...way of giving out money than the Department of Education had ever done before. We said, “Hey... ...a very different way of leveraging the Department of Education 's minority investment withi... ...to the Treasury. We're going to say the Department of Education can give out those loans and save mone... ...money for discretionary money for the Department of Education in the Recovery Act negotiations. But ... ...And whether it was bringing her to the Department of Education to talk about community colleges o... ...college summits with us at the Department of Education . And then of course she was willing t... ...the secretary's conference room at the Department of Education thinking, How are we going to measur... ...we were reinventing how the federal Department of Education could work. We didn't want to just be ... ...Schools, he had to sue the federal Department of Education to let him use the money the way h... ...working for her versus working at the Department of Education , was really the different tool sets w... ...could or couldn't do. But because the Department of Education had things like gift authority, we ha... Show more... Josh DuBois ...the mayors in their communities. At the Department of Education and Corporation for National [an... ...that it was actually a mistake at the Department of Education to change these standards at all, an... Fiona Reeves ...family.” What happened? [Laughs] The Department of Education acted, and a solution was worked ou... Jordan Brooks ...the ability to then—we worked with the Department of Education . Lynn, and Tina, and the counci... ...the Dear Colleague letter. That the Department of Education wrote, but there were so many meeting... ...was talking to all the people, but the Department of Education was writing the regulations, but ou... ...years of listening sessions with the Department of Education , who really led the charge on this... ...the department of civil rights at the Department of Education . We spent a lot of the first ter... ...it took so long for Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education and the Trump administration t... ...and why it really was harmful. The Department of Education has to read every single one of thos... ...audience and the ear of the team of the Department of Education during the Trump administration. Yo... ...obviously. It's very possible that the Department of Education team thought through a lot of this. I'... ...Tons of things we could do at the Department of Education in the Elementary and Secondary School... ...how—it's tricky, obviously, at the Department of Education , because you can't mandate what state... Show more... Krish Vignarajah ...of the work. Did you work with the Department of Education on that? Who were your liaisons? An... ...had a number of conversations with the Department of Education , just to try to figure out if ther... Melissa Winter ...We brought over a staffer from the Department of Education . We brought over Eric Waldo to run th... ...he had all of his contacts back at Ed [ Department of Education ]. He really educated all of us. Ther... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America