Sponsor
Nathaniel Moran
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
Official title: To terminate the Department of Education, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Nathaniel Moran · Last progress March 27, 2025
The bill shifts federal education functions, funding, and enforcement to other agencies and to state/local control—potentially reducing federal spending and duplicative bureaucracy while risking large funding gaps, weakened civil‑rights protections, increased inequality, and significant transitional disruption for students, schools, and families.
State and local school systems regain primary control over education decisions, reducing federal regulatory requirements and letting curricula and policies reflect local preferences.
People with pending agency benefits, permits, contracts, grants, licenses, rules, and lawsuits keep their existing rights and processes so cases and supports continue without sudden interruption during transfers.
Consolidating the Institute of Education Sciences into HHS could enable more integrated health–education research, preserve IES personnel through transfer, and reduce duplication across agencies.
Ending Title I Part A and Part D federal grants after Oct 1, 2036 will remove major resources for low-income students and programs for neglected, delinquent, or at‑risk youth, forcing schools or localities to fill large funding gaps.
Terminating the Department of Education and transferring its functions risks disrupting federal supports, program coordination, and civil‑rights oversight for students, potentially reducing enforcement of protections for students with disabilities and racial/ethnic minorities.
Eliminating new PLUS loans after Oct 1, 2026 removes a common parent/student financing option and will make college less affordable for some families, complicating aid packaging and potentially reducing enrollment for tuition‑dependent institutions.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Abolishes the Department of Education, transfers many programs to HHS and DOJ, sunsets select Title I/Part D grants by 2036, and ends new Direct PLUS loans for programs starting Oct 1, 2026 or later.
Abolishes the U.S. Department of Education and moves many of its programs and offices into other federal agencies while creating a new Office of Education inside HHS; requires the President to submit and implement an orderly liquidation plan within 180 days and sets October 1, 2026 as the effective date for termination and transfers. The bill schedules sunsets for some K–12 grant programs, ends new Federal Direct PLUS loan authority for loans starting on or after October 1, 2026 (with limited transition protections), and transfers the Institute of Education Sciences to HHS and the Office for Civil Rights to DOJ.