Department of Education: Trump preparing to sign the order to dismantle the education agency

Cnn
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President Donald Trump could decide this week to take the first steps to eliminate the Ministry of Education, said people familiar with the case, while seeking to considerably reduce the size of the federal government.

Officials of the White House prepared a leading decree of the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start the dismantling process of the department, the sources said. Trump could sign the document on Thursday, but the plans had not yet been finalized.

Trump has long reported his intention to close the department, but the elimination fully obliges the congress to act, said McMahon during confirmation hearings earlier this year. She was confirmed on Monday.

CNN previously reported that the administration was writing an order to launch the closure process of the Ministry of Education. Trump also plans to put pressure for the congress to adopt legislation to end the department.

The order of order orders McMahon to “take all the measures necessary to facilitate the closure of the education service” while operating in “the appropriate maximum measurement and authorized by law”.

“The experience of controlling American education through federal programs and dollars – and inexplicable bureaucrats of these programs and their dollars – failed our children, teachers and families,” said the order project.

Although the calls to abolish the Department of Education or to merge it with another Federal Agency are not new, this decision has failed to obtain the support of the Congress.

Representative Madeleine Dean, a democrat of the Philadelphia region, criticized the Trump administration on Thursday in difficult terms for the moves to dismantle the department of education, but said that the news was “no surprise”.

“What you want is an educated electorate,” Dean told CNN. “Not if you are Donald Trump and his cult members. They want citizens who are not educated. »»

Dean cited the chapter on the education of the 2025 project – the extreme right plan for Trump’s second term. “This is what the first sentence says. Stop it. Eliminate the Ministry of Education. »»

On the campaign track, Trump repeatedly stressed the department as a sign of federal surpassing and has linked it to the problems of cultural war. “We will drain the government’s education marshes and will stop the abuse of your dollars taxpayers to indoctrinate young people in America with all kinds of things that you do not want to have our youth audience,” he said.

“I said to Linda (McMahon),” Linda, I hope you are doing a great job to put you out of a job. I want her to get away from a job – the education department, “said Trump last month.

Even if Trump succeeds in putting an end to the department, it is possible that certain programs and funding can be kept and transferred to other agencies, which is where they were accommodated before the creation of the department in 1979.

Federal financing programs for schools from kindergarten to the 12th year which help support the education of students of low -income families and disabled children, for example, preceded the creation of the Ministry of Education.