BISMARCK – North Dakota’s educational services are not being impacted by changes announced Tuesday at the federal level.
North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler said Tuesday that internal restructuring and new federal interagency agreements do not change anything for North Dakota’s schools.
“Federal funding remains. All protections remain. Accountability remains,” she said. “This is an internal administrative change – not a change to programs, services, or expectations for our students, teachers, school districts, or families.”
The reorganization shifts the administrative work of certain programs to federal agencies that are already aligned with those areas – the Departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State — while retaining the underlying laws, funding, and protections.
Baesler will retire at 8 a.m. Monday morning and will assume the office of assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education in the Department of Education shortly afterward.
