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• Restore revenue responsibility for Title I funding to the states overa 10-year period.

OESE also currently manages the federal Impact Aid program, which provides funding to school districts to compensate for reductions in property tax revenue due to the presence of federal property (such as that associated with a military base or tribal lands).

• Eliminate Impact Aid not tied to students.

• Move student-driven Impact Aid programs to the Department of Defense Education Authority (DoDEA) or the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education.

• Transfer all Indian education programs to the Bureau of Indian Education.

• The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers to low-income children living in the nation’s capital—appropriate as D.C. is under the jurisdiction of Congress—should be expanded into a universal program, formula-funded, and moved to the Department of Health and Human Services.

• Allother programs at OESE should be block-granted or eliminated.

Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education • Transfer the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education’s few programs to the Department of Labor, but

• Move the Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Program to the Bureau of Indian Education.

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) houses nearly two dozen programs, ranging from funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf to Special Olympics Funding and the American Printing House for the Blind.

• Most IDEA funding should be converted into a no-strings formula block grant targeted at students with disabilities and distributed directly to local education agencies by Health and Human Service’s Administration for Community Living.