States’ Education Reclamation Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 13, 2025 by Rep. David Rouzer
It's waiting on a committee vote to reach the full chamber. Most bills never leave this stage.
This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and repeals any program for which it has administrative responsibility.
The Department of the Treasury must provide grants to states, for FY2025-FY2033, for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education purposes permitted by state law. The level of funding is set at the amount provided to states for federal elementary and secondary education programs and the amount provided for federal postsecondary education programs, respectively, for FY2025, minus the funding provided for education programs that the bill transfers to other federal agencies.
States must contract for an annual audit of their expenditures or transfers of grant funds.
Program administrative responsibility and delegation of authority are transferred as follows:
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
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