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Major Education Department grants now managed by Labor, State, Interior, and HHS .

$18B Title I program for low-income schools included in transfer.

Student loans and civil rights enforcement remain with Education Department.

Move is part of Trump administration plan to downsize department.

The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.

The changes announced Tuesday represent a major step forward for the administration’s dismantling of the department, which has mainly involved cutting jobs since President Donald Trump called for its elimination with an executive action in March.

Six new agreements signed by the Education

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