The Trump administration announced it will transfer core functions of the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, moving the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services and sh

2026-06-17

The Trump administration announced it will transfer core functions of the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, moving the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services and shifting the Office for Civil Rights' investigative and enforcement work to the Department of Justice. The administration has already moved some K-12, higher education and career-technical programs to the Department of Labor under interagency agreements and has initiated a process to transfer a $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio to the U.S. Treasury.