Education Department’s role is bigger than critics realize | Opinion

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 25, 2025 | Federal

USA Today When U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon claimed in USA TODAY that the recent government shutdown showed “how little the Department of Education will be missed,” she overlooked the damage done to the nation’s students,...

The Education Department gave another agency power to distribute its money. It hasn’t gone well.

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 25, 2025 | Federal

POLITICO The stumbles of an early Trump administration experiment to carve up the Education Department risks undercutting the president’s more dramatic demolition plan for the agency. The Labor Department began taking control of federal career, technical, and adult...

With crossed wires and late funding, some call Education Department move to Labor a ‘muddle’

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 25, 2025 | Federal

The 74 The Education Department last week unveiled six interagency agreements with four other federal agencies as part of the Trump administration’s plan to wind down an agency that it argues was unconstitutional to begin with. “Let’s make sure that that grant...

Fragmented federal education plan could harm students with disabilities, advocates warn

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 25, 2025 | Federal

Education Week Parceling out the U.S. Department of Education’s responsibilities to other agencies puts students with disabilities at risk by weakening federal enforcement of the laws that protect them and severing important connections between offices that help...

Special education: Department of Education cuts are leaving kids with disabilities behind

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 18, 2025 | Federal

Slate When reduction-in-force notices went out to hundreds of Department of Education employees as part of the shutdown, more than 100 of these DOE workers were part of the team that oversaw special ed around the country. They ensured resources got distributed...