What is United States Secretary of Education?
{{Infobox official post | post = United States Secretary of Education | body = | flag = Flag of the United States Secretary of Education.svg | flagborder = yes | flagcaption = Flag of the secretary | insignia = Seal of the United States Department of Education.svg | insigniacaption = Seal of the Department of Education | image = Linda McMahon official photo.jpg | incumbent = [[Linda McMahon]] | incumbentsince = March 3, 2025 | acting = | department = [[United States Department of Education|Department of Education]] | style = Mrs. Secretary (informal)<br/>[[The Honourable#United States|The Honorable]] (formal) | reports_to = [[President of the United States|President]] | seat = [[Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]] | appointer = [[President of the United States|President]] | appointer_qualified = with [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[advice and consent]] | termlength = No fixed term | constituting_instrument = {{UnitedStatesCode|20|3411}} | formation = {{start date and age|1979|11|30}} | first = [[Shirley Hufstedler]] | succession = [[United States presidential line of succession|Sixteenth]]<ref>{{cite web |title=3 U.S. Code § 19 - Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/19 |website=Legal Information Institute |access-date=31 July 2021 |language=English }}</ref> | deputy = [[United States Deputy Secretary of Education|Deputy Secretary]] | salary = [[Executive Schedule|Executive Schedule, Level I]] | website = {{URL|https://www.ed.gov/|ed.gov}} }} The '''United States Secretary of Education''' is the head of the [[United States Department of Education|Department of Education]]. The Secretary is a member of the [[President of the United States|President's]] [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]], and 16th in line of [[United States presidential line of succession]]. The United States Secretary of Education deals with Education. In [[1979]], President [[Jimmy Carter]] established the [[U