HEADLINES:

• ED is not abolished tomorrow. Congress still appropriates every dollar.
• What IS moving right now: $31 billion in annual grants — Title I, Title II, Title III, CSP, magnets, Indian Ed — shifting via Economy Act agreements to Labor, Interior, State, and HHS.
• Charter-specific bombshell: the Charter Schools Program and Title V-B facilities incentives just became the property of the Department of Labor.
• Big exhale: IDEA Part B ($15 billion) and OCR civil rights enforcement are staying put. No signed transfer agreements yet. That buys us 2025–26 and almost certainly 2026–27.

WHAT TO DO:

• Your Director of Federal Programs needs immediate support. They will now have to navigate the remaining US Ed programs (IDEA), Labor, Interior, State, and HHS
• Your Chief Academics, Chief Financial, and Chief Operations will need to be well versed in Federal compliance and how it shifts since there are now many more stakeholders to report into
• Your local and state relationships matter more than ever. Your Superintendent/CEO hires need to be able to build and maintain those relationships.
• You need a Chief Schools or Chief Academics who looks internally and runs the day-to-day while your CEO/Superintendent manages the external given how many more relationships are going to be critical to accomplish your mission to serve students, families, and communities.