After yesterday Executive Order from the White House Calling to the Secretary of Education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department, Stan Dream. Dawn Keefer (R-Cumberland/York) plans to introduce a resolution that requires the same to confirm Pennsylvania’s “sovereign authority” in relation to the educational system.
The senator of the first term wants to resist them President Donald Trump EO, which is the basis for the “return of education control to the place where it belongs – at a state and local level.”
Her Co -consisting note He says that “for over four decades, the US Education Department has excessive federal influence, spending billions of dollars of taxpayers annually with a slight measurable progress. Students’ performance remains stagnation since the 1990s, and 70% 8. Equesters throughout the country fall below the reading standards, and 72% failure in order to obtain mathematical proficiency. In Pennsilaania, these federal mandates. Students.
Keefer’s goal would be to “restore education in his rightful place under state control, in accordance with the constitution, to increase responsibility for taxpayers’ dollars and enable Pennsylvania to design and implement educational policies, which reflect the priorities and needs of our communities.”
The state leaders quickly condemned the executive order of Trump.
“The United States Education Department plays a key role in ensuring that every student, especially our disabled students, receives excellent education in a public school surrounded by adults who care about them,” said the leader of the Democratic Senate Jay Costa (D-Allegheny) and chairman of the democratic education of the Senate Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) in a statement. “In Pennsylvania, we rely on the US Education Department for $ 1.45 billion for educational support, $ 3.3 million in financing mental health services and $ 238.1 million to finance the development of workforce. On the front of higher education, the destruction of the Education Department means our community $ 68.9 billion, which supports over 1.8 million dollars Pennsylvania.
“The demolition of the US Education Department will do nothing to improve mathematics and reading and reading skills, nor will it reduce real estate taxes; on the contrary, this order will only be used to pristine our students and release indescribable discrimination without consequences.
“The demolition of the Federal Department of Education does not eliminate fraud and abuse, eliminates federal support for disabled students and eliminates teaching positions that serve students living in poverty,” he said Billy HilemmanPresident of the Teachers Federation in Pittsburgh. “Stealting opportunities from our most sensitive children simply pay for additional tax reductions for billionaires, is immoral. PFT condemns the shameful and soulless disregard for Trump’s administration for children who need our help the most.”
Keefer, an avid supporter of Trump and his policy, is also a co -bonnet “Save Women’s Sports Act” or Senate Bill 9 This would ensure that school sports teams designated for women will not be open to male teams.
