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The Labor Department is soliciting applications for a TRIO grant program on the Education Department\u2019s behalf, and awards will be issued on Labor\u2019s grants-management platform, ED announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Universities, state governments and other entities can now apply for up to $10\u00a0million each\u2014estimated available funding totals $175.2\u00a0million\u2014to help administer the federal Talent Search Program. ED says the goal of Talent Search, which is one of eight TRIO programs, is to \u201cincrease the number of youth from disadvantaged backgrounds who complete high school\u201d and college.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese actions further align the postsecondary and workforce education programs of ED and DOL and will position DOL as the central hub for America\u2019s postsecondary education and workforce development programs,\u201d ED said in a news release. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the latest example of ED using interagency agreements to transfer its work to other federal agencies, as the Trump administration continues pushing to eliminate the Education Department. Only Congress, which created ED by law, can end it. <\/p>\n
Through the agreement, <\/strong>Labor is essentially administering ED grant programs, while ED continues to set the budget, criteria and priorities for the programs and manage hiring and other HR processes, among other activities. Some ED employees were detailed to work at Labor in January, ED said. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to partner with the Department of Labor to streamline postsecondary and workforce education programs to better serve students, institutions of higher education, and grantees,\u201d said David Barker, ED\u2019s assistant secretary for postsecondary education, in Tuesday\u2019s release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Labor Department is soliciting applications for a TRIO grant program on the Education Department\u2019s behalf, and awards will be issued on Labor\u2019s grants-management platform, ED announced Tuesday. Universities, state governments and other entities can now apply for up to $10\u00a0million each\u2014estimated available funding totals $175.2\u00a0million\u2014to help administer the federal Talent Search Program. ED says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5028,23032,1957,4639,864,11975,12840],"class_list":{"0":"post-47079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-applications","9":"tag-behalf","10":"tag-eds","11":"tag-grant","12":"tag-labor","13":"tag-soliciting","14":"tag-trio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}