Overview
- The Education Department executed six interagency agreements moving management or co-management of major programs to Labor, Health and Human Services, Interior, and State.
- Labor will co-manage the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, administering roughly $28 billion in K–12 grants, and take on key higher education grant programs such as TRIO and GEAR UP.
- HHS will handle the CCAMPIS campus child care program and foreign medical accreditation, Interior will administer Indian education programs, and State will oversee international education and foreign language initiatives.
- Federal student loans and college accreditation remain under the Education Department for now, with policy oversight of transferred programs retained under a "co-management" structure.
- Democratic lawmakers, unions, and advocacy groups denounced the plan as unlawful and warned of service disruptions, while downsizing continues under a July Supreme Court order as litigation proceeds.