Trump Proposal Rolls Out Four Labor, Education Subagencies (1)

The White House unveiled a proposal to combine the Labor and Education departments into a single agency with four subgroups, blending everything from enforcement to workforce development.

The June 21 reorganization report calls for the two departments’ sprawling assortment of subdivisions to be folded into agencies called K-12; the American Workforce and Higher Education Administration (AWHE); Enforcement; and the Research, Evaluation, and Administration agency.

The new Cabinet agency would be called the Department of Education and the Workforce. The reorganization plan also would shift the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the DOL to the Commerce Department.

The proposal requires congressional ...