- Dry education. Linda McMahon told Newsnation that more than 300 employees had accepted the acquisition of $ 25,000.
- She also said that she was planning to transfer student loans and PELL subsidies to other federal agencies.
- This is part of the wider objective of the Trump administration to dismantle the Ministry of Education.
After having been at work for a few days, the new educational secretary of President Donald Trump is already thinking about major changes at the Ministry of Education.
Linda McMahon told Newsnation in an interview on Friday that even if she “could be corrected on this subject,” more than 300 employees accepted the acquisition of $ 25,000 from the Ministry of Education that was proposed to them last week.
The offer was part of the largest mission in the White House to reduce government waste by Reduce federal workforce. He Follows an offer of earlier resignation of the administration which was offered to most federal employees.
“DOGE’s responsibility is to come, to revise, as I said, to audit and to make recommendations of what they think is useful and to delete the waste, fraud and the abuses they find,” said McMahon. “But it is up to the chief of the agency or the secretary to determinate the way we advance with these suggestions.”
Here is what we know on the plans of McMahon so far for the Ministry of Education.
What is the next step at the Ministry of Education
After McMahon was confirmed on Monday evening, she published a memo detailing the “final” mission “of the Ministry of Education to support Trump’s objective to dismantle the department. This mission included the prioritization of the role of parents in the studies of their children, the abolition of” Division programs of Dei “of class programs and the guarantee of post -secondary education programs lead to well -remunerated careers Labor needs.
When asked by Newsnation, McMahon refused to provide a calendar on Trump’s official decree on the dismantling of the department, but she reaffirmed that the agency’s closure would need 60 votes to the Senate.
“I think that my work is to convince the congress that the steps we take are in the best interests of children and that they would vote to close the Ministry of Education if they feel confident than at the state level, that these children will receive better education,” said McMahon.
McMahon and certain Republican legislators previously proposed to transfer the responsibilities of the Ministry of Education to other federal agencies if they have closed it. McMahon said she was examining how Pell’s subsidies and student loans “could be better served in another department, and we seek to know where it could be better managed.”
“It is not to turn off the lights and get out of the department,” she said. “It is with a close consultation with Congress and looking at how the needs of students can be better maintained.”
Some educational policy experts previously declared to Business Insider that there was no evidence that the closure of the department would really improve the results of the students. The ministry has already reduced $ 900 million in research contracts, which, according to employees and experts, are hindering the agency’s capacity to collect data on students’ results.
“I have serious concerns about our future, even if the Enlightenment has been able to light tomorrow, I do not know – what has already been done is simply very prejudicial,” Bi of the Institute of Education – Research and Statistics of the Department facing serious compensation – told Bi.
The Ministry of Education did not immediately respond to the request for BI comments.
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