The Education Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.

The move was described by three people informed of the plan ahead of the announcement. Two of these people said six offices within the department would be shifted elsewhere; the third person said it was at least two.

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    3 hours ago

    So are they gonna be replacing those “You don’t need college” commercials with “You don’t need high school” commercials?

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      2 hours ago

      A number of red states have also eased restrictions on child labor, so yeah, probably. They want to bolster their workforce with uneducated kids.