Trump administration transfers disability education oversight to HHS under RFK Jr.
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Summary
The Trump administration announced it will move disability education oversight from the Department of Education to the Department of Health and Human Services, placing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's disability education system. The Office for Civil Rights will be transferred to the Department of Justice. This move is part of the ongoing dismantling of the Department of Education, and raises concerns given Kennedy's history of spreading misinformation about autism and vaccines.
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The Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education—disability education oversight and the department's Office for Civil Rights—to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice, respectively.
The move would give HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversight over the nation's disability education system.
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