After last week’s introduction of a package of 10 bills that transfer key education programs currently under Interagency Agreements (IAAs) to their partner agencies, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) has scheduled a committee mark-up of the package this week. The Less Bureaucracy, Better Education package would expand upon current agreements that share responsibilities for education programs between the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Interior, State, and more. The bill package takes the IAAs a step further by codifying the full transfer of programs to other agencies. At this time, there is no bill codifying the IAAs announced in late June that would move the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to HHS and the Office for Civil Rights to Justice. COPAA opposes the package and does not support any effort to dismantle ED.