{"id":753105,"date":"2025-11-20T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=753105"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:07:41","slug":"education-watch-a-plan-to-outsource-the-u-s-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"newspack_nl_cpt","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/newsletter\/education-watch-a-plan-to-outsource-the-u-s-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch: A plan to outsource the U.S Department of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The Trump administration announced a plan to shift much of the U.S. Department of Education’s work to other agencies as it moves forward with dismantling the department. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The administration announced a series of interagency agreements Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by NOTUS<\/a>, two major offices affected by the plan are the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education, which will shift to the Department of Labor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Education Department will move the Office of Indian Education to the Department of the Interior; child care access and foreign medical education to the Department of Health and Human Services; and foreign-language education to the State Department, according to The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Senate supermajority is needed to close the department completely, and a handful of bills to do so haven’t progressed. Meanwhile, the Department joked about its relevancy with a social media post of a fictitious out-of-office email that reads: “we might be away from our desks attending strategic assessments, creating more red tape, and doing nothing to improve student outcomes.” It’s signed “bureaucratically yours.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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