The Trump administration is implementing its widely-telegraphed plan to shutter the Education Department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies.
Six department offices would be affected by plans to move operations to four separate agencies, according to two people familiar with the discussions who were granted anonymity to discuss the details ahead of the formal announcement.
The effort is a key step in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s goal of entirely eliminating the agency.
The department’s office of elementary and secondary education, as well as its postsecondary education office, would move to the Labor Department, the people said.
The agency’s Office of Indian Education would also move to the Interior Department, the people said, while foreign language programs would be moved to the State Department. Additionally, the department would send a child care access and medical education program to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The expansive and unprecedented effort to outsource the department’s operations will not yet include transferring federal authority over special education to HHS, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke as the agency began to detail the effort ahead of a formal announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
The department did not respond to a request for comment.
