US EditionThe Education Department is being dismantled. Here’s what that means
The Education Department’s workforce was cut by 50%, with several offices moved to other agencies while the federal student loan portfolio of $1.6 trillion remains under department control.
- The Department of Education on Tuesday announced a partial transfer of its operations into partnerships with other federal agencies, following an administration decision to shift functions without a full shutdown.
- The administration says the effort aims to return education to states and cut red tape after the Department of Education workforce was halved earlier this year, officials said.
- The department manages a federal student loan portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion with fewer than 1,500 Office of Federal Student Aid employees, facing backlogs peaking at two million IDR applications and over 70,000 PSLF Buyback claims unresolved.
- Transferring offices under six interagency agreements, the Department of Education transfers several programs to four agencies, while a court hearing is scheduled and Senator Elizabeth Warren leads lawmakers urging caution.
- Amid reports of possible sales of loan assets, critics warn that such sales could threaten borrowers' protections and risk taxpayer losses, while the Department of Education's oversight roles could weaken, officials said.
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Fate of Civil Rights Office Unknown as Trump Continues to Dismantle Department of Education
By Lauren Burke A busy news week heading into the Thanksgiving holiday has distracted from a continuing effort by the Trump Administration to relocate, and in some cases end, the U.S. Department of Education. It has long been known that Trump and his policy advisors want to dismantle the department — but the acceleration over the last week has taken some by surprise. The U.S. Department of Education was established in 1979 under President Jimmy …
Commentary: To Safeguard Students and Uphold Civil Rights, the Trump Administration Must Preserve the U.S. Department of Education
SPRINGFIELD – Please attribute the following message to Karl Goeke, president of the Illinois Education Association:“Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and parsing its duties out to various agencies allows our neediest students and all students’ rights to be ignored. It’s insulting, frankly, that this plan would be presented during American Education Week, a week founded in 1919 by the National Education Association and the American Le…
The Department of Education: Down but Not Out
So far, the Trump team’s confused and piecemeal efforts to “dismantle” the Department of Education (ED) amount to firing a bunch of people (including experts in key functions such as statistics and assessment), terminating some grants, and shuffling a handful of programs and offices over to other federal agencies. They admit that only Congress can abolish a cabinet department that Congress created in 1979 and that a host of responsibilities and …
Infante-Green rips Trump administration move to divert DOE work
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — As the Trump administration continues efforts to dismantle the Department of Education, the White House’s latest move toward that end prompted local response. President Trump signed an executive order in March geared toward hollowing out the DOE, and a CNN report said that the department is now diverting some of its function elsewhere. The report said that five offices will be affected by the move, including the Office …
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