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The U.S. Department of Education announced six new interagency agreements (IAAs) on Tuesday with four agencies to “break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states,” per a press release.
Those partnerships with the departments of Labor (DOL), Interior (DOI), Health and Human Services (HHS), and State, include elementary and secondary education (Q&A here), postsecondary education, Indian education, foreign medical accreditation, child care access, and international education and foreign language studies. Read more on the department’s website.
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