Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of the Education Dept

Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six programs to other agencies, including offices that administer $28 billion in grants to K-12 schools and $3.1 billion for programs that help students finish college. There was considerable speculation that special-education services would be included in the announcement, but they were not. Other major functions of the Education Department, including its Office for Civil Rights and the federal student aid program, also were not affected by these changes, but a senior department official told reporters that officials are exploring options for moving those programs elsewhere in the government. President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to shut down the agency, created in 1979, and in March, he signed an executive order seeking its elimination. He asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon to work with Congress to do so, but lawmakers have not acted or seriously considered Trump’s request…”