Right-Sizing the U.S. Department of Education Before Closure
The second Trump Administration is executing an executive order to close the U.S. Department of Education. To manage this process, the Department has signed 14 interagency agreements (IAAs) with other federal agencies to share responsibility for education programs. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce has approved a package of 10 legislative proposals to codify these IAAs and transfer program authority from the Education Department to other agencies. Key proposals include transferring adult literacy, career and technical education, and higher education programs (including HBCU and TRIO programs) to the Department of Labor, and foreign medical school accreditation to the Department of Health and Human Services. The article notes that Title I funding for low-income schools and IDEA services for special needs children remain unchanged, and civil rights enforcement is preserved through an IAA with the Department of Justice.
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