WASHINGTON (AP) —The Education Department is handing off the administration of its workforce development programs to the Department of Labor, part of the Trump administrations plan to wind down the federal education agency.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced the interagency agreement on Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the administration to move ahead with its plan to dismantle the department.
The Associated Press reported Monday that the department had recently struck a deal to outsource the management of several grant programs for workforce training and adult education to the Department of Labor.
The Education Department said the shift streamlines federal workforce programs, the majority of which are already administered by the Department of Labor.
The department on Tuesday called it a “major step in shifting management of select ED programs to partner agencies.