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Where can I find official Federal Register or ED policy documents listing personnel categories and changes through 2025?
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If you want official listings of federal personnel categories and documented policy changes through 2025, the Federal Register and agency pages are the primary official trails: FederalRegister.gov posts all 2025 ED entries and links each item to the official PDF on govinfo.gov (see the 2025 Federal Register index and the Education Department index) [1] [2]. For personnel-specific rules and pay/category changes you should also check Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and related Federal Register notices and presidential actions referenced in the Federal Register [1] [3] [4].
1. Where the “official” records live — Federal Register and govinfo
The Federal Register is the daily repository for rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents; FederalRegister.gov offers a searchable 2025 index and links every listed document to the official PDF on govinfo.gov, which you should consult for the legally authoritative text [1]. The Federal Register site cautions that its XML site is a prototype and recommends verifying documents against the official edition on govinfo.gov [1].
2. Department of Education publications you can cite directly
The Department of Education publishes its rules, notices and information-collection requests to the Federal Register; the site maintains a 2025 ED index showing the Education Department’s publications for the year and includes direct links to each ED Federal Register notice [2]. Recent ED actions in 2025 (for example, proposed and final priorities and definitions on grant priorities) appear on FederalRegister.gov with links to official PDFs [5] [6].
3. Personnel categories, pay and hiring rules — check OPM and presidential documents cited in FR
Personnel categories, hiring authorities and pay schedules are typically set or implemented through OPM rulemaking, presidential orders, and accompanying Federal Register notices. Executive and presidential documents affecting hiring and classifications are published in the Federal Register — for example, presidential actions relating to federal hiring and policy changes appear in Presidential Documents issued and archived via the FR and govinfo [3] [7]. For pay and locality tables, OPM posts 2025 GS locality and pay materials (the GS 2025 tables and fact sheets are the authoritative source for pay-category changes) [8] [9].
4. Recent 2025 personnel-related items you’ll find in the record
The Federal Register and govinfo show a range of relevant 2025 entries: ED rulemaking and notices (ED indexes and multiple FR docs), presidential EOs and other Executive Office documents that direct OPM rule changes, and OPM’s pay/fact-sheet releases [2] [3] [9]. Examples in the search set include Federal Register FR entries for ED proposed and final priorities (May and September 2025) and presidential hiring/accountability directives published in the FR [5] [6] [3] [7].
5. Practical search path to compile personnel categories and changes through 2025
Step 1: Start at the Federal Register 2025 index and the Education Department 2025 index pages to gather all ED-published notices and rules for 2025; follow each entry to the official PDF on govinfo.gov for the legal text [1] [2]. Step 2: Search FederalRegister.gov and govinfo for OPM rulemaking, pay tables, and Presidential Documents affecting hiring or classifications [1] [3]. Step 3: For pay and category definitions, consult OPM’s 2025 General Schedule/locality pages and OPM fact sheets [8] [9]. Step 4: Track related ED docket notices (e.g., information-collection notices and negotiated rulemaking) which can include staff or classification implications [10] [11] [12].
6. Where reporting and advocacy sources add context — but are not legal authority
Press and policy organizations (education press, think tanks, trade press) provide context on workforce impacts and administration programs (for example coverage of FedScope data, OPM hiring-rule changes, and ED reorganization proposals), but these are interpretive and should be cross-checked against Federal Register or OPM documents for enforcement details [13] [14] [15]. Use them to understand likely effects; use FR/govinfo/OPM docs for the official, cited language.
7. Limitations, gaps and what the provided sources don’t say
Available sources point you to where official texts are published and highlight several 2025 ED and OPM documents, but they do not provide a single consolidated ED personnel-category table covering every 2025 change — you will need to compile items across multiple FR entries, OPM releases, and executive orders [1] [2] [8]. If you want a consolidated dataset or spreadsheet, available sources do not mention a single ED-branded personnel-category list that aggregates every 2025 change — you must assemble it from the Federal Register/govinfo and OPM materials (not found in current reporting).
If you want, I can draft a prioritized search checklist of exact FR query strings and OPM pages to fetch the specific ED and personnel-category documents you’ll need to compile a definitive 2025 ledger.