On Thursday, March 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in an effort to get rid of the U.S. Education Department.
Source: AP News, Ben Curtis
According to the Associated Press, the order states that the education secretary will, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.”
Trump recently stated that the “core necessities” of the department, such as Title I funding for low income schools and money for children with disabilities, will still exist.
Trump believes that the states will do a better job handling the academic performances in America than the department, per AP.
There have been no details on how the process behind the dismantling of the department will be handled.
“I think this action by President Trump should not come as a surprise, being that educational reform was a major issue of his campaign. Trump’s administration wants to return education back to the individual states while still maintaining some of the basic functions of the DOE, like grant funding,” said sophomore Matthew Meaney.
