A sweeping federal reshuffle hands control of key K-12 and college programs to agencies with little education expertise — a move experts warn could destabilize funding for low-income students and deepen existing inequities.
Overview:
The Trump administration is shifting key responsibilities from the Department of Education to several other federal agencies, one of which is the Department of Labor. Advocates and a former employee of the Labor Department say the move has heavy risks, namely for students who rely on Title I funding.
When it announced earlier this week that the Department of Education would hand over several core functions to the Department of Labor and three other federal agencies, the Trump administration took a giant step toward dismantling the Department of Education.
But critics warn that outsourcing the management of more than $31 billion in school funding for low-income districts and college programs to agencies with no education expertise is a recipe for chaos. The Labor Department, they say, has neither the bandwidth nor the expertise to administer programs such as Title I school funding, which is critical for Black and brown K-12 students.
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