The White House announced a reorganization of the US Department of Education that will essentially move six offices to other cabinet departments as part of a set of interagency agreements:

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education – Department of Labor

Office of Postsecondary Education (but not student loans) – Department of Labor

Indian Education – Department of Interior

International Education and Foreign Language Programs – Department of State

Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS) – Department of HHS

Foreign Medical Accreditation – Department of HHS

Secretary McMahon said the goal is “to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.”

This reorganization via inter-agency agreements is widely understood as the next step in the president’s executive order goal to dismantle the Department and a workaround from the requirement that the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Post-Secondary Education be housed within the Department of Education.

Source: USDOE, November 18, 2025.

Here is a link to a fact sheet about what the change means for K-12 education at the federal level.