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2.  A Message from the Secretary
3.  What Is the U.S. Department of Education?
4.  What Does the Department of Education Do?
5.  What the Department of Education Does NOT Do
6.  How Is the Department of Education Organized?
7.  Where Is the Department of Education?
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