Overview
- An all-staff meeting this afternoon is expected to outline transfers affecting at least five offices, including civil rights, special education, and K‑12 and higher‑education divisions, according to multiple reports.
- Sources say personnel will be detailed to other departments under agreements that leave some oversight with Education, enabling a piecemeal wind‑down ordered by President Trump in March.
- The department has already shed nearly half its staff this year and shifted career and technical and adult education programs to the Labor Department through an interagency agreement.
- The Supreme Court in July allowed certain dismantling steps to continue while litigation proceeds, though shutdown negotiations reversed some layoffs until at least late January.
- Education Secretary Linda McMahon is promoting the push with public messaging and an ally‑commissioned poll showing higher support when details are explained, even as full dissolution would still require Congress.