The Education Department announced Tuesday it was offloading six of its biggest grant programs to other parts of the executive branch — a major step in the Trump administration’s plan to close the sprawling agency.

A senior department official confirmed the Education Department’s office of K-12 and post-secondary education, which manages more than $31 billion in grants, would shift to the Department of Labor.

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Elsewhere, the Health and Human Services Department would oversee grant programs to assist parents attending college with childcare, as well as management of foreign medical school accreditation.

The Education Department announced Tuesday it was offloading six of its biggest

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