secretary of education

secretary of education

noun
1. the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education; "Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education" 
2. the position of the head of the Education Department; "the post of Education Secretary was created in 1979" 
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