by Alvin Buyinza

When it announced earlier this week that the Department of Education would hand over several core functions to the Department of Labor and three other federal agencies, the Trump administration took a giant step toward dismantling the Department of Education.

But critics warn that outsourcing the management of more than $31 billion in school funding for low-income districts and college programs to agencies with no education expertise is a recipe for chaos. The Labor Department, they say, has neither the bandwidth nor the expertise to administer programs such as Title I school funding, which is critical for Black and brown K-12 students.

Angela Hanks, former acting assistant secretary of the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration during the Biden admin

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