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    Explaining Tump’s promise to close the Department of Education

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    President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to shutter the federal Department of Education and delegate all education responsibility to individual states — a move that could impact crucial funding for K-12 schools and hamper enforcement of civil rights — but experts warn that the federal government is unlikely to do so. will be able to roll up his sleeves in the field of educational regulations, even if the department is closed.

    Key facts

    Trump has called the Department of Education, which was created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, an example of government surveillance of Americans’ daily lives and suggested it has been a bad investment for taxpayers. He claimed that the US spends three times as much money on education as any other country. other nation “and yet we’re absolutely at the bottom, we’re one of the worst” (U.S. News & World Report ranks the United States’ public education system twelfth in the world).

    In a video message posted last year, Trump baselessly claimed that the Department of Education is staffed by many people who “in many cases hate our children” and said: “We want states to manage our children’s education because they can do a much better job of it.” . You can’t do worse.”

    Shutting down the Department of Ed is outlined in Agenda47, the proposals the Trump campaign outlined during the primary season, and Project 2025, a multi-part plan for a Trump administration created by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of other groups that Trump distanced himself from took. in the run-up to the elections.

    While closing the Department of Education appears to be high on Trump’s list of priorities, his Agenda47 proposals around education also outline orders for schools — such as cutting funding for schools that teach critical race theory or “transgender madness” and teachers who ’embracing patriotic behavior’ with a diploma. values ​​and support the American Way of Life” – that would no longer be the purview of the federal government if all responsibilities were transferred back to the states.

    How many of the department’s responsibilities, such as allocating federal funds, would be handled without the federal agency has not yet been made clear.

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    Crucial quote

    “We will drain the government’s education swamp and end the misuse of your tax dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all the things you don’t want our youth to hear,” Trump said at a September rally in Wisconsin.

    News Peg

    Billionaire Elon Musk, a super-donor to Trump who is expected to play a role in his next administration, on Monday called closing the Department of Education a “good idea.” He also posted a meme with a photo of Carter and the caption: “In 1979 I created the Department of Education. Since then, America has gone from 1st to 24th in education.” It is unclear on what data this statistic is based.

    How can the Ministry of Education be eliminated?

    According to The Washington Post, closing the Department of Education would require congressional action and likely a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Republicans regained control of the Senate in last week’s elections, but will fall short of 60 votes, meaning any action that requires 60 votes will need the support of some Democrats. Closing the department was included as an amendment on the 2023 House vote last year, and 60 Republicans voted against it, including Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a House Republican whom Trump selected for a UN ambassadorial role in his next government. .

    What does the Ministry of Education do?

    The Department of Education’s biggest responsibility is unlocking federal education funds. Education, as currently structured, is ultimately the responsibility of state and local governments, but federal money supplements state resources and funds a variety of programs, many of which are aimed at reducing funding disparities for low-income or at-risk students . In FY 2022, federal funds made up $119 billion, or about 14%, of total education funding. Hallmark programs include Title I, which provides additional funding to high-poverty K-12 schools used to hire teachers and otherwise support low-income communities, and the Office of Special Education Programs, which provides resources provided to disabled students up to and including the age of 21. is also responsible for collecting statistics on enrollment, school crime, staffing and other topics; making recommendations for educational reform; administering the Nation’s Report Card performance tests; investigating civil rights violations; and overseeing the federal student loan program, including the distribution of Pell Grants.

    What is the budget of the Ministry of Education?

    In fiscal year 2024, the Department of Ed was allocated $238 billion, less than 2% of the total federal budget.

    What would closing the Department of Education mean for student loans?

    Trump has not specified what the fate of federal student loans would be if the Department of Education were eliminated. Either way, the next administration is expected to take a much tougher approach to student loan forgiveness than President Joe Biden’s administration. Trump in June called Biden’s forgiveness plans “despicable” and said they were only intended “to gain publicity for the election.”

    What does Project 2025 say about the Department of Education?

    Project 2025 calls for the department’s programs to be reallocated to other areas of the federal government. For example, civil rights enforcement in schools would be the responsibility of the Justice Department, the student loan program would move to a new sector in partnership with the Treasury Department and other programs would move to the Department of Health and Human Services, according to The Washington Post. The Project 2025 education plan calls for eliminating Title I funding (which supports students from low-income families) and instead distributing block grants to states without spending oversight; eliminating the Head Start program, which the Center for American Progress warns would limit access to child care in rural areas and “increase inequality among families with young children”; and reversing Biden-era Title IX revisions that ban discrimination in schools based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Who else has tried to eliminate the Ministry of Education?

    Ronald Reagan campaigned to get rid of it in 1980, Bob Dole advocated for its abolition during his 1996 Republican presidential campaign against Bill Clinton, and both Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as Rand Paul, R-Ky.) called for its abolition in 2015. Arguments for its abolition have varied over time and include calls ranging from getting the federal government out of education entirely to transforming it into a grant agency to redistributing its programs to other agencies.

    Big number

    44%. That’s the number of Americans who have a positive image of the Department of Education, according to a Pew Research survey published in August. There are wide party differences in how the department is viewed, with 27% of Republicans surveyed viewing it favorably, compared to 62% of Democrats. The Department of Education ranked No. 14 on a list of 16 federal agencies in terms of favorability, the Pew survey found, with the National Park Service (76% favorable), U.S. Postal Service (72%) and NASA (67 %) at the top. The Department of Justice (43%) and the IRS (38%) were the only agencies that scored lower.

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