In the summer of 1744, Indian chiefs from the six Iroquois nations came to Lancaster to meet with representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to resolve land disputes.
The primary functions of the Department of Education are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights..
At the state level, the NC Department of Public Instruction serves and leads 115 school districts, 2,674 public and charter schools, approximately 95,000 public school teachers and 1.5 million students. These numbers and the size of our state require us to be strategic about our work.