The Department of Education on Tuesday will announce an agreement to transfer multiple offices to other agencies, marking a major step towards dismantling the nearly 50-year-old cabinet agency, sources briefed on the agreements confirmed to ABC News. The long-expected move would inch President Donald Trump closer to his goal of shuttering the department and returning education decision-making to the states. However, dismantling the agency completely would take an act of Congress and 60 Senate votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster. The expected announcement comes as the department has teased partnerships with federal agencies, but no formal agreements have been signed. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has said she wanted to move special education programming to the Department of Hea

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