The Department of Education Is Slowly Disappearing Into Other Agencies
So, the grand plan to dismantle the Department of Education is officially in motion, and it starts with a massive, high-stakes game of bureaucratic hot potato.
Instead of just turning off the lights and locking the doors, the administration is piece-by-piece packing up the Department of Education's bags and sending its most critical programs to live with other federal agencies.
First up, civil rights enforcement and student privacy are being packed off to the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, special education and disability programs are getting shipped over to the Department of Health and Human Services—which is currently run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yes, the brain-worm guy is now in charge of federal special education resources.
This is all part of a very deliberate, step-by-step plan to completely dissolve the education department, as pushed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon. They already announced a move to a smaller building later this year. It's basically the government equivalent of moving into a studio apartment before a couple officially breaks up.
Naturally, advocates for disabled kids are panicking. It turns out shifting massive education programs to a health agency isn't exactly a seamless transition, especially when the goal seems to be making the original department vanish entirely.
Closing down an entire cabinet department by quietly giving away its organs one by one is certainly one way to win a political fight.
Source: NPR
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