President Trump unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to break up the Education Department, part of a broader effort to shrink the federal government’s role in American schooling.
President Trump unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to break up the Education Department, part of a broader effort to shrink the federal government’s role in American schooling. The administration’s proposal would shift most of the department’s responsibilities—including support for K-12 academics and college access—into other agencies, mostly the Labor Department, the New York Times reports. Other programs would be parceled out to Health and Human Services, the State Department, and the Interior Department, which would take over the Indian Education Office.
The plan steps up the administration’s efforts to dismantle the department, which Trump called for in a March executive order, the AP reports. Earlier steps mostly involved job cuts.
