Politics

Last fall, the department signed several interagency agreements transferring many of its employees and programs to the departments of Labor, Interior, State, and Health and Human Services.

These interagency agreements will move billions of dollars in grant programs to other agencies. The Labor Department, in particular, will oversee federal funding that goes to K-12 schools, including grants for schools serving low-income communities.

Once this transfer is complete, the Labor Department will disperse more education funding than it does for its own labor programs.

Congress recently passed a spending package that increased funding for the Education Department, rejecting the Trump administration’s calls for deep budget cuts to reflect many of its core programs being moved elsewhere.

But officials say it’s still moving ahead with plans to transfer more employees and programs out of Education.