11. Department of Education · Minor · Needs Congress

Transfer Native American Vocational Rehabilitation Grants to BIE

Attempted

Printed page 327 11. Department of Education

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

What has happened

Jan 9, 2026 Attempted
Education, Interior and Labor opened tribal consultation on the Indian Education Partnership.
- ED press release: Education, Interior and Labor Announce Tribal Consultation on the Indian Education Partnership
  Primary Executive branch Jan 9, 2026
Nov 18, 2025 Attempted
The ED-DOI Indian Education Partnership fact sheet names the American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program, currently managed by OSERS, among the programs Interior will administer for ED. As with the rest of the agreement, it is an Economy Act service contract: the Rehabilitation Act authority and ED's policymaking role stay where they are.
- ED press release: U.S. Department of Education Announces Six New Agency Partnerships to Break Up Federal Bureaucracy
  Primary Executive branch Nov 18, 2025
- Fact Sheet: Department of Education (ED) and Department of Interior (DOI) Partnership
  Primary Executive branch Nov 18, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

ED was still running the program itself in 2026: it published proposed and final waivers extending the project periods of the American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program and its training and technical assistance center on 2026-04-02 and 2026-06-18 (FR 2026-06438, 2026-12376).
The half of this ask that needs an act of Congress rests on one negative search, run once for the program transfers and eliminations on pp. 325–327.

Action: transfer
Object: Vocational Rehabilitation Grants for Native American students
ID: 817