The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced six new interagency agreements (IAAs) with four agencies to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensuring efficient delivery of funded programs and moving closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states. These partnerships with the Departments of Labor (DOL), Interior (DOI), Health and Human Services (HHS), and State mark a major step toward improving the management of select ED programs by leveraging partner agencies’ administrative expertise and experience working with relevant stakeholders.
In an appearance on Fox News, Education Secretary Linda McMahon outlined the new plan, emphasizing that the government shutdown proved schooling functions just fine without the federal government. “The Trump Administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states,” McMahon said. “Cutting through layers of red tape in Washington is one essential piece of our final mission.”
The announcement follows Trump’s pledge to dismantle the agency altogether, with White House spokeswoman Liz Huston stating, “President Trump promised the American people he would dismantle the Department of Education. Today, Secretary McMahon is delivering on that promise with bold, decisive action to return education where it belongs — at the state and local level.”
The Trump Administration is fully committed to doing what’s best for American students, which is why it’s critical to shrink this bloated federal education bureaucracy while still ensuring efficient delivery of funds and essential programs. The Democrat shutdown made one thing unmistakably clear: students and teachers don’t need Washington bureaucrats micromanaging their classrooms.
This is a great move in the right direction. Children’s education does not belong in the hands of the federal government.