The Education Department has published multiple interagency agreements to transfer day‑to‑day management of more than 100 programs to other agencies, officials confirmed this week. Programs ranging from career and technical education to adult learning are being remapped to departments including Labor and Health, a process the department says will preserve services while reducing the agency’s footprint. Officials describe the moves as interagency operational transfers; critics call them a step toward dismantling an agency that Congress must legally authorize to close. Observers worry about loss of institutional knowledge, funding continuity for states and districts, and uneven governance once programs land in agencies with different missions. Analysts say the reassignments will reshape federal higher‑education policy administration and could complicate grant competitions, compliance oversight, and stakeholder engagement while Congress debates the department’s future.