Education: Moving K-12 Programs to the Labor Department
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Moving entire sections of the government is a massive change that rarely happens without broad support from both parties, and this bill currently lacks that momentum.
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Employees currently working in the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education would be transferred to a new Education Employment and Training Administration inside the Labor Department. The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget to prevent any net increase in federal employees, which could mean no backfilling of positions lost to attrition during the reorganization.
“The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall ensure that this Act does not result in a net increase in full-time equivalent employees at the Federal agencies impacted by this Act”
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Natural Resources, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) is introducing the 'Less Bureaucracy, Better K-12 Education' and 'Less Bureaucracy, Better Higher Education' acts as part of a 10-bill effort to 'reduce federal education bureaucracy' and codify a plan to right-size the Department of Education by shifting responsibilities.
House education chair Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) is looking to give the Labor Department formal control over the federal government's work on adult education. The move is part of a broader bill to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and advance efforts to shutter the Education Dept.
Rep. Tim Walberg, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, praised new regulations as 'one of the most significant higher education accountability reforms in a generation.' The rules are an outgrowth of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' passed in 2025 to streamline federal education policy.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Less Bureaucracy, Better K–12 Education Act
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