The Department of Education has quietly restructured its footprint: officials have begun transferring 118 programs to other agencies and shuttered long‑running federal recognitions for schools. The interagency moves reassign responsibilities across cabinet departments, while the Green Ribbon Schools award—long used to spotlight campus sustainability and environmental education—was ended without public notice. The changes reflect the administration’s broader push to ‘return education to the states,’ but they also remove federal visibility and a signaling mechanism that local leaders and districts say helped scale best practices. Institutions and state education officials now face administrative transitions, new review procedures, and questions about continuity of federal recognition and technical support.