The Trump administration is advancing its plan to dismantle the Department of Education, seeking to return more power to the states.
The department announced on Tuesday that it had entered into six new interagency agreements with four government agencies to “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “ensure efficient delivery of funded programs.”
‘What we want to do is to show Congress that this implementation works.’
These new agreements involved partnerships with the Departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State.
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“Cutting through layers of red tape in Washington is one essential piece of our final mission,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. “As we partner with these agencies to improve federal programs, we will continue to gather best practices in each state through our 50-state tour,
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