This bill would stop the Secretary of Education from entering into new agreements with other Federal agencies to carry out the functions of four Department of Education offices: the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Postsecondary Education, the Office of Indian Education, and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. It also would bar moving a function out of those offices to another office within the Department and then contracting with another agency to do the work. Existing interagency agreements that were in effect on February 1, 2025, and renewals that keep the same terms are allowed.
The bill also requires the Secretary to provide, within two weeks after enactment and quarterly thereafter, a detailed public cost analysis for each interagency agreement entered into on or after February 1, 2025. The reports must be given to specified House and Senate committees and posted on the Department website, and must break down obligations and estimated costs across items such as grant administration, training, staff transfers, facility and technology changes, overhead, contract costs, and reductions in force. Finally, the bill bars using certain Department travel funds in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 unless the required information is provided.
No publicly available information on the bill’s overall budgetary cost or estimated savings. The bill requires the Department to prepare and publish detailed cost analyses for covered interagency agreements (quarterly), and it prohibits certain travel expenditures in FY2026 and FY2027 unless the reports are provided.
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