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Keep Dismantling the Department of Education

Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is one of the Trump administration’s best and boldest policies. With just a small percentage of staff coming to the office anymore, the agency is downsizing to a nearby building. Some senators are trying to stop much of this welcome reform, however, with a bill to cease implementation of any interagency agreement in K–12 and higher education, special education, and Indian Education.

As a former deputy assistant secretary in one of these areas, I can say with confidence that interfering with these agreements is bad policy.

Should any education programs operate at the federal level? No. They all should return to the states. But so long as they exist, they should run efficiently, and they’ll do that better in their new agencies. Here’s why.

First, the interagency agreements enable the government to integrate education policy with other areas such as labor policy and health policy. Staff expertise from the Department of Education, for instance, is now on site at the Department of Labor and other agencies to better serve America’s students.

Second, the agreements streamline government to help states and other grantees simplify their interactions with Washington. Having a single agency and a single grant management system for similar grants will reduce the headaches that grantees experience with a bewildering patchwork of systems.

Third—and I can say this with particular experiences in mind—the programs are likely to be much better administered in their new........

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