Most K-12 Programs Will Leave Education Department in Latest Downsizing

Updated: This story has been updated with additional details on program transfers.

A majority of the U.S. Department of Education’s funding for K-12 schools—more than $20 billion a year—will be administered instead by the U.S. Department of Labor under an interagency agreement the two agencies have signed, the Trump administration announced Tuesday in one of its broadest efforts yet to downsize a Cabinet-level agency the president has pledged to eliminate.

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Source: Education Week, November 18, 2025.