Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive regulation on Thursday, in which the closure of the US education department, according to an official from the White House, is promoted to remove an agency that has been a long -term goal of conservatives.
The official spoke before an announcement on the condition of anonymity.
Trump mocked the Ministry of Education as wasteful and muddy through liberal ideology. However, the conclusion of its dismantling is probably impossible without an act of the congress, which created the department in 1979.
A fact that the white house said that the order would lead the secretary Linda McMahon to “take all the necessary steps to facilitate the closure (of the) Ministry of Education and to return the educational authority to the states and at the same time to ensure the effective and uninterrupted provision of services, programs and advantages where Americans are left.”
The agency has already tipped out the Trump administration. The workforce is cut off in two halves and there were profound cuts of the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute for Educational Sciences, which collects data on the country’s academic progress.
Proponents of public schools said that the elimination of the department would leave children in an American education system that is fundamentally unequal.
“This does not repair any training. It is ensured that millions of children never get a fair shot. And we won’t allow it without a fight,” said the national parents’ union in a statement.
The White House has not officially explained which department functions can be handed over to other departments or can be removed as a whole. At her hearing for confirmation, McMahon said that she would keep core initiatives, including money with title I for low-income schools and pell grants for students with low income. The goal of the administration, she said, would be “a better functioning Ministry of Education”.
The department sends billions of dollars a year at schools and monitors 1.6 trillion dollars of federal loans.
At the moment, a enormous part of the agency’s work revolves around the administration of money – both the extensive student loan sports folio as well as a number of aid programs for universities and school districts, from school meals to the support of school students. The agency also plays an critical role in monitoring the enforcement of civil rights.
Federal funding is a relatively miniature part of the public school budget – around 14%. The money often supports supplementary programs for students in need of protection, such as the McKinney Vento program for homeless students or titles I for schools with low income.
Through research aid from the federal government, which aid the students to pay their tuition fees, universities and universities rely on money from Washington.
For decades, the Republicans have spoken of the closure of the educational department that taxpayers wasted money and that the federal government is inserting decisions that should be made in states and schools. The idea has recently gained popularity because conservative parent groups demand more authority about the schooling of their children.
In his platform, Trump promised to close the department and send it back to the states where she belongs. “Trump has occupied the department as a breeding ground of” radicals, zealers and Marxists “, which survive its reach through guidance and regulation.
At the same time, Trump relied on the educational department to promote elements of his agenda. He has the investigative powers of the Office for Civil Rights and the risk that the financing of federal education will be withdrawn in order to deduct schools and universities, which are involved in his command instructions for transgender athletes that are involved in women’s sports, pro-Palestinian activism and diversity programs.
Even some allies of Trump have questioned his authority to close the agency without measures of the congress, and there are doubts about its political popularity. The house looked at a change to close the agency in 2023, but 60 Republicans closed the Democrats against them.
During Trump’s first term of office, former Minister of Education Betsy Devos tried to dramatically reduce the budget of the agency, and asked the congress to bundle all K-12 financial means into block grants that give states more flexibility in the federal government issue. It was rejected with pushback of some Republicans.
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