The Interior Department is slated to inherit some additional work as the Trump administration moves to break up the Department of Education.
The departments of the Interior and Education this week announced that Interior will take on “a greater role in administering Indian Education programs relating to elementary and secondary education, higher education, career and technical education, and vocational rehabilitation.”
The announcement came as part of the administration’s long-anticipated plan to dismantle the Education Department and send pieces of its work to other federal agencies.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon lauded President Donald Trump on Thursday for working to fulfill a campaign promise to “send education back to the states.” The department’s moves to delegate its “redundant” programs to other agencies will allow her department to “cut our own bureaucratic bloat,” McMahon told reporters during a White House briefing.
