WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, calling for dismantling US Education DepartmentDeveloping a promising campaign to dismantle an agency that has been a long -term goal of conservatives.
Trump laughed at the Education Department as prodigal and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing his disassembly is probably impossible without a congress act that the department created in 1979. Republicans stated that they would introduce an invoice to achieve this.
However, the department is not completely closed. The White House said that the Department would keep some critical functions.
Trump said that his administration would close the department outside his “basic needs”, maintaining the obligations of financing the title and for schools with low income, subsidies and money for disabled children. The White House said earlier that he would continue to manage federal student loans.
The president blamed the department for delayed academic results in America and said that you would do a better job.
“He doesn’t do anything good to us,” he said during the White House ceremony.
The Trump’s Republican administration was already looking at the agency. His labor is chopped in halfand it was deep cuts to the Office of Civil Rights and the Institute of Educational Sciences, which collects data on the progress of the academic nation.
Supporters of public schools said that the elimination of the department left children in the American education system Basically uneven.
“This is a dark day for millions of American children who depend on federal funds for high -quality education, including in poor and rural communities with parents who voted for Trump,” said President Naacp Derrick Johnson.
Democrats said that the order would fight in courts and Congress, and called Republicans to join them in the opposition.
The Order of Trump is “dangerous and illegal” and disproportionately harm low -income students, colored students and disabled people, said Rep. Bobby Scott from Virginia, the highest class of the Education and Working Form Committee.
The department “was partly founded to guarantee the enforcement of civil rights of students,” said Scott. “Masters of segregation of public schools opposed and conducted a campaign to return to” rights “.
Supporters of the vision of Trump’s education were satisfied.
“Never more bloated bureaucracy dictating what children learn or suppress innovations with bureaucracy,” said Tiffany Justice, co -founder of Moms for Liberty on social media. “States, communities and parents can take over their reins – adapting education to what actually works for their children.”
The White House did not formally specify which department’s functions can be transferred to other departments or completely eliminated.
The department sends billions of dollars a year to schools and supervises USD 1.6 trillion of federal student loans.
Currently, a significant part of the agency’s work concerns money management – both its extensive student loan portfolio, as well as a number of assistance programs for universities and school districts, such as school meals and support for homeless students. The agency is also crucial in supervising Enforcement of civil rights.
States and districts already control local schools, including the curriculum, but some conservatives forced to cut the routes related to federal money and providing them to countries as “block subsidies” for apply at their own discretion. Block Playing caused questions about critical sources of financing, including title and, the largest source of federal money to American K-12 schools. Families Disabled children They despaired on what may result from the work of the Federal Department, protecting their rights.
Federal financing is a relatively small part of public school budgets – about 14%. Money often supports additional programs for sensitive students, such as the McKinney-Vento program for homeless students or the title and for low-income schools.
Universities and universities depend more on the money from Washington, through research subsidies together with federal financial assistance, which helps students pay their tuition.
Republicans have been talking about the closure of the education department for decades, saying that he was wasting taxpayers’ money and introduces the federal government to decisions that should fall to the states and schools. This idea has recently gained popularity, because conservative parents’ groups require greater authority over the school of children.
On his platform, Trump promised to close the “and send him back to the States where it belongs.” Trump cast the department as a habitat of “radicals, fanatics and Marxists” who excessively draw their reach through tips and regulations.
Even when Trump moves to break up the department, he leaned over him to promote the elements of his program. Used the investigation rights of the Office for Civil Rights and the threat of withdrawing educational money to attack schools and universities that are ongoing his orders Transgender athletes participating in women’s sportsPro-Palestinian programs of activism and diversity.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington, a democrat in the Senate Commission for Health, Education, Work and Pensions, dismissed Trump’s claim that he was returning education to the States. She said that she “tries to control local schools and dictate what they can and cannot teach.”
Even Trump’s allies questioned his power to close the agency without Congress, and there are doubts about its political popularity. The Chamber recognized the amendment to closing the agency in 2023, but 60 Republicans joined Democrats in adversity.
During the first term of Trump, the Secretary for Education for Betsy Devos tried to radically reduce the agency’s budget and asked Congress to combine all K-12 funds into block subsidies that give countries more flexibility in spending federal money. This movement was rejected, with the rejection of some Republicans.
Leavitt is one of the three listed administrative officials In a lawsuit carried out by the Associated Press based on the first and fifth amendments. AP claims that all three punish the press agency for editorial decisions that they oppose. The White House claims that AP does not comply with the executive order to name the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
