{"id":6399,"date":"2025-10-21T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/report-trump-administration-mulling-transfer-of-special-ed-from-education-department-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:54:04","slug":"report-trump-administration-mulling-transfer-of-special-ed-from-education-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/report-trump-administration-mulling-transfer-of-special-ed-from-education-department-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Trump administration mulling transfer of special ed from Education Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shauneen-doe-building-exterior_0-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda\/States Newsroom)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Education Department is looking to move the $15 billion Individuals with Disabilities Education Act program outside of the agency, the Washington Post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2025\/10\/21\/trump-special-education-move\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a statement to States Newsroom, department spokesperson Madi Biedermann did not explicitly confirm the report, but said the department is generally looking for ways to move its operations to other agencies. President Donald Trump has pledged to eliminate the Education Department.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The agency \u201cis exploring additional partnerships with federal agencies to support special education programs without any interruption or impact on students with disabilities, but no agreement has been signed,\u201d Biedermann wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Biedermann said Education Secretary Linda McMahon \u201chas been very clear that her goal is to put herself out of a job by shutting down the Department of Education and returning education to the states\u201d and that McMahon is \u201cfully committed to protecting the federal funding streams that support our nation\u2019s students with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u2019s administration moved to lay off 465 department employees, including 121 at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.457131\/gov.uscourts.cand.457131.62.6_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services<\/a>, earlier this month amid the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A federal judge has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/federal-judge-broadens-order-blocking-trump-administration-layoffs-during-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily blocked the administration<\/a> from carrying out the layoffs, but the ruling provides only short-term relief as legal proceedings unfold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department\u2019s many responsibilities include guaranteeing a free public education for students with disabilities through IDEA.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump has already suggested rehousing special education services under the Department of Health and Human Services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/1903156638154137682\" target=\"_blank\">said on social media<\/a> in March that the agency is \u201cfully prepared\u201d to take on that responsibility.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fully transferring responsibility for IDEA would require an act of Congress \u2014 a significant undertaking given that at least 60 votes are needed to break a Senate filibuster and Republicans hold just 53 seats.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda\/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Education Department is looking to move the $15 billion Individuals with Disabilities Education Act program outside of the agency, the Washington Post\u00a0reported Tuesday.\u00a0 In a statement to States Newsroom, department spokesperson Madi Biedermann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Trump administration mulling transfer of special ed from Education Department - WestplexNews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/report-trump-administration-mulling-transfer-of-special-ed-from-education-department-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Report: Trump administration mulling transfer of special ed from Education Department - WestplexNews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. 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