President Trump campaigned on closing the Department of Education and handing schools back to the states.
He is now making good on it, one office at a time.
On Tuesday, his administration announced another major move that strips key functions out of the agency and sends them elsewhere in the federal government.
Washington is no longer just talking about shrinking the agency. The machinery is actually moving.
The Department of Education is expected to announce a major step in the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the agency. https://t.co/JrKbEegxVA
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) June 16, 2026
The move was quickly picked up as one of the biggest steps yet in the effort to dismantle the department.
The Associated Press described the core transfer this way:
The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education.
That is the heart of it.
Special education oversight moves to Health and Human Services. Civil-rights enforcement in education moves to the Justice Department.
With those transfers, AP reported that the vast majority of Education Department functions have now been assigned to other agencies.
That is exactly the outcome a lot of conservatives have wanted for decades.
The federal bureaucracy shrinks, and the work goes to agencies that already exist.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving Education Department oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. -AP
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 16, 2026
The program details make clear why this is a serious move, not a symbolic one.
ABC News reported where two key offices are expected to go:
The sources told ABC News the HHS is expected to receive the Offices of Special Education Programming (OSEP) and Rehabilitative Services Administration (RSA).
ABC also reported that the transfer reaches programs connected to millions of students and families under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Critics will frame moving those dollars and programs as chaos.
Supporters see it differently. The money and legal protections follow the programs to their new homes.
This also follows a plan the administration laid out last year.
The U.S. Department of Education previously described the larger mission in plain language:
The Trump Administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.
Tuesday’s move fits that frame cleanly.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s department keeps shedding functions while the work continues under other roofs.
The left will scream that this is reckless. The unions will scream even louder.
But President Trump told voters he would close the department and send education back to where it belongs.
This is another piece of that promise turning into policy.
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