The Department of Education is shifting a number of its responsibilities to other federal agencies—a move that education experts say continues the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the department, and that they fear will lead to delays in schools receiving critical funding.

Certain offices serving schools and colleges will be transferred to the Departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State, the department announced on Tuesday. It claimed the change is intended 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.”

“Cutting through layers of red tape in Washington is one essential piece of our final mission,” U.S. S

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