From UnidosUS 12/10/2025
Summary: Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced and attempted to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Only Congress has the authority to disband federal agencies, but that hasn’t stopped executive overreach as the Trump administration laid off thousands of the department’s staff. The latest attempt to exceed its authority is the Trump administration’s efforts to scatter core and critical functions of the Department of Education across four other federal agencies that are ill-equipped to take on these new responsibilities, lacking the expertise or capacity to support student learning. The results will harm students, parents and educators and will continue to have long-term consequences for education nationwide.
Read more: https://unidosus.org/progress-report/maze-not-system-how-students-lose-when-us-department-education-dismantled/