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Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction

The U.S. Department of Education still ranks near the bottom of the list of big federal agencies when it comes to employee job satisfaction, at least according to a survey released last week by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service.

But it seems that the department's employees are a tiny bit happier than they were on the same survey last year.

Out of 32 large federal agencies surveyed about issues such as leadership effectiveness, work/life balance, and pay, the Education Department came in 30th. Last year, on the same survey, the department ranked 27th out of