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Transfer the Vocational Rehabilitation Grants for Native American students to the Bureau of Indian Education.

Phase out earmarks for a variety of special institutions, as originally envisioned.

To the extent that OSERS supports federal efforts to enforce our laws against discrimination of individuals with disabilities, those assets should be moved to the Department of Justice (DOJ) along with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Office for Postsecondary Education (OPE)

The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate or move OPE programs to ETA at the Department of Labor.

Funding to institutions should be block-granted and narrowed to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and tribally controlled colleges.

Move programs deemed important to our national security interests to the Department of State.

Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

Move ED’s statistical office, the National Commission for Education Statistics (NCES), to the Department of Commerce’s Census

Bureau. If Congress believes the federal government can play a valuable research role, those research centers can be moved to the National Science Foundation. If Congress decides to maintain IES as an independent agency, it needs to address major governance and management issues that keep

it from being a productive contributor to the knowledge base related to teaching and learning.

Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)

The next Administration should completely reverse the student loan federalization of 2010 and work with Congress to spin off FSA and its student loan obligations to a new government corporation with professional governance and management.

With a statutory charge that it preserve the federal student loan portfolio for

the benefit of the taxpayers and students, this new entity would be (1) professionally governed by an agency head and board of trustees appointed by the President