Estados Unidos y Canadá

Education Office of Spain in the U.S.

The Education Office is a technical body of the Diplomatic Mission of Spain to the U.S. and Canada. Its headquarters are located at the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C. The Education Office forms part of the Ministry of Education of Spain's foreign offices network spread over five continents and is in charge of implementing in the U.S. and Canada Spain's foreign education policies, without affecting the authority of direction and coordination of the Head of the respective Diplomatic Mission.

Duties:

To manage the foreign education policies of Spain in the U.S. and Canada.
To promote the Spanish language and culture in the U.S./Canadian education systems.
To offer pedagogical, technical support to teachers of Spanish through the Spanish Resource Centers located at Universities in the U.S and Canada.
To support the English-Spanish bilingual programs in the K-12 education system in Spain.
To manage CIDEAD's official distance learning exams, and to colaborate with the Cervantes Institute on the administration of the DELE exams.

For detailed information: Educational Outreach Programs

Further details about the Education Office Outreach Programs, and current information about the situation of the Spanish language in American education are available in the 2020 edition of The World Learns Spanish report.