Welcome to the report card with Nat Malchus, the Education Policy podcast from the American Enterprise Institute.

The Trump administration's efforts to reform education may not be making national headlines quite as often as they did a year ago, but a lot has still happened in education over the last several months.

The Trump administration has continued its push to dismantle the Department of Education.

Elite universities are making efforts to reform campus culture. the Department of Education. Elite universities are making efforts to reform

campus culture. The Department of Education released a major report on the future of the Institute

of Education Sciences, and campaigns to limit phone use and now screen time in school continue to gain momentum.

There's a lot to discuss here.

So to break it all down, I invited Rick and Andy back onto the podcast.

Andy Rotherham is a co-founder and senior partner at Bellwether and the author of the

Eduwank blog.

And Rick Hess is Senior Fellow and the Director of Education Policy Studies here at AEI.

Rick, Andy, welcome back to the report card.

Good to be with you, man.

Good to see it, Nat. Thanks for having us.

So it's been a long time since we last spoke, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to dismantle the

Department of Education.

I think most notably, through 10 interagency agreements, it's signed with five different

cabinet agencies.

Let's start with the basics.

Rick, what's an interagency agreement?

It's actually a good question.

It's something that most of us had barely given any thought to. It's a routine thing in Washington.

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