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Ed Department Transfers More Key Responsibilities in Next Moves to Dismantle Agency

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

The Department of Education is transferring two of its key responsibilities to other parts of the executive branch, marking the administration’s latest effort to wind down the agency’s operations.

The agency’ is moving its Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services to better serve people with disabilities, a senior department official told reporters on a Tuesday press call.

“Federal rights and protections provided under the programs administered by OSERS, including the [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] and the Rehabilitation Act, are critical to individuals with disabilities and their families, yet families often described to the secretary and her team here at the department, long bureaucratic, costly efforts and additional barriers to securing the........

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