Trump moves oversight of special education and civil rights from the Education Department
- The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is moving oversight of special education and student civil rights out of the U.S. Department of Education, transferring these major responsibilities to other federal agencies.
- The Department of Health and Human Services will assume control of special education, taking over the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services , which manages billions in grants and enforces the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act .
- The Department of Justice will take over federal civil rights enforcement in education, absorbing the Office for Civil Rights to investigate school and university complaints regarding discrimination based on race, gender, disability, or national origin.
- The dramatic shifts are part of a broader strategy to systematically dismantle the Education Department from within. Because only Congress possesses the legal authority to officially close a cabinet-level department, Education Secretary Linda McMahon is using interagency agreements to offload core operations to other parts of the government.
- Disability advocacy groups and labor unions strongly condemned the decision, warning that splintering these offices will dilute federal oversight, disrupt long-standing support systems for roughly 7.5 million students with disabilities, and create bureaucratic chaos for families.
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