This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced agreements to shift a number of functions within the department to four other federal agencies.

In a statement on the Department of Education’s website, the move was described as a way to “break up the federal education bureaucracy” and “ensure efficient delivery of funded programs,” while fulfilling President Donald Trump’s “promise to return education to the states.”

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