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Where can I find the official classification or personnel roster that maps job titles to the Department of Education’s 11 professional categories?
Executive summary
You will not find a single “official roster” in the supplied reporting that maps every Department of Education (U.S.) job title into exactly 11 professional categories; available sources describe reclassification efforts, new career lines for Philippine DepEd teachers, and U.S. ED organizational changes but do not publish a universal 11‑category personnel roster (available sources do not mention a single official 11‑category roster) [1] [2] [3].
1. What the reporting actually covers — multiple, distinct projects
The search results mix different initiatives: Philippine DepEd reclassification and modified career/progression schemes for teachers and school heads (DepEd‑DBM Joint Circular and related coverage) [1] [2], U.S. Department of Education structural shifts and interagency agreements under the 2025 administration [3] [4], and third‑party summaries about “professional degree” definitions [5] [6]. None of these documents in the provided set is an explicit personnel roster mapping U.S. ED job titles to “11 professional categories”; instead they discuss policy changes, funding, and agency partnerships [1] [3] [2].
2. Philippine DepEd materials: detailed reclassification but different scope
The DepEd‑DBM Joint Circular No. 01, s. 2025 — and coverage of the Modified Position Classification and Compensation Scheme — is an official instrument for the Philippines that reorganizes teacher career lines and salary grades; Teachers Click and DepEd’s own release note reclassification steps, timelines, and funding allocations for teaching and school principal positions [1] [2]. These items show that national education agencies do produce formal classification documents, but they are country‑specific and focused on basic education teaching career lines rather than a U.S. Department of Education mapping into 11 categories [1] [2].
3. U.S. Department of Education reporting in the results: organizational changes, not a roster
Coverage from Chalkbeat and a U.S. Department of Education press release describe significant structural changes in 2025 — moving program responsibilities to other agencies and signing interagency agreements (for example, transferring many postsecondary grant functions toward the Department of Labor) — but these pieces frame governance and program shifts rather than publishing a personnel classification table mapping job titles to a fixed set of professional categories [4] [3].
4. What “11 professional categories” might mean — not found in these results
The phrase “11 professional categories” is not defined or documented in the supplied sources. The materials here reference classification systems (salary grades, career progression frameworks, classification and compensation sections) and examples of job classification pages (Hawaii DOE) and job boards, but they do not present a named 11‑category taxonomy for the U.S. ED workforce [7] [8]. Therefore, available sources do not mention the asserted 11‑category roster.
5. Where authoritative rosters usually live — how to find them (contextual guidance)
When an education agency has a formal roster that maps titles into categories, it typically appears in: an agency’s human resources/classification office pages, a formal joint circular or classification and compensation scheme (as in the Philippine DepEd example), or an official federal personnel system document (e.g., Office of Personnel Management classifications) [1] [7]. The supplied results include examples of those formats (DepEd joint circular, Hawaii DOE classification page) but not the specific 11‑category U.S. ED mapping [1] [7].
6. Competing viewpoints and potential agendas in coverage
Coverage of U.S. ED reorganization is framed by advocacy and political context: Chalkbeat describes the moves as part of a broader dismantling or dispersal of federal education functions with sources tracing back to Project 2025 and administration priorities [4]. The U.S. Department of Education press release presents interagency agreements as efficiency and workforce‑development measures [3]. These are competing framings — reform for efficiency versus dismantling the department — that affect how one interprets any personnel recategorization [4] [3].
7. Practical next steps given current reporting
If you seek an official mapping for the U.S. Department of Education: consult the Department’s HR/classification pages or request records from ED’s human capital office; none of the supplied sources provide that roster (available sources do not mention a U.S. ED 11‑category personnel roster). If your interest is the Philippines’ teacher reclassification, DepEd‑DBM Joint Circular No. 01, s. 2025 and DepEd releases (and media summaries) are the authoritative starting points shown in the results [1] [2].
Limitations: This analysis is restricted to the search results you provided; claims outside these sources are labeled as “not found” or “available sources do not mention.” All factual statements above are supported by the cited items [1] [2] [3] [4] [7].