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The Trump administration is denying the next generation the resources they need to succeed in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires,
This EO underscores that Linda McMahon, Donald Trump, and the rest of this administration remain ignorant about what our agency actually does and how their efforts to dismantle it will negatively affect kids and families throughout the country,
the employee, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, told CNN Donald Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students in rural, suburban, and urban communities across America, by dismantling public education to pay for tax handouts for billionaires,
National Education Association President Becky Pringle said in a statement When it comes to student loans and Pell Grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education, but we don’t need to be spending more than $3 trillion over the course of a few decades on a department that’s clearly failing in its initial intention to educate our students,
Leavitt told reporters earlier Thursday We’re going to shut it down, and shut it down as quickly as possible.”
Speaking in the East Room, surrounded by school children in uniforms sitting at classroom desks, Trump said I told Linda (McMahon), ‘Linda, I hope you do a great job in putting yourself out of a job.’ I want her to put herself out of a job – Education Department,
Any critical functions of the department such as that will remain, but again, we’re greatly reducing the scale and the size of this department,
I really believe that they’ll be as good as any of them,
If successful, Trump’s continued actions will hurt all students by sending class sizes soaring, cutting job training programs, making higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, taking away special education services for students with disabilities, and gutting student civil rights protections,
I want to just make one little personal statement- teachers to me are among the most important people in this country and we're going to take care of our teachers. I don't care if they're in the union or not. That doesn't matter but we're going to take care of our teachers. I believe the states will take better care of them, ... We want to have our children well educated. we want them to love going to school."
In Baltimore, 40% of the high schools have zero students who can do basic mathematics- not even the very simplest of mathematics. They're talking about like adding a few numbers together,
Despite these breathtaking failures the Department's discretionary budget has exploded by 600 per cent in a very short period,
When President Carter created the federal education department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers the New York Times editorial board and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
My administration has initiated a reduction in force. We've cut the number of bureaucrats in half,
The Department's useful functions- Pell Grants, Title One funding resources for children with disabilities and special needs will be preserved. Pell Grant is supposed to be a very good program, Title One funding and resources for children with special disabilities and special needs- are going to be preserved in full and redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them,
But beyond these core necessities, my administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department as quickly as possible- it's doing us no good. We want to return our students to the States. We want education to come back to the States and they're going to do a phenomenal job. It's a commonsense thing to do and it's going to work,
This is a dark day for the millions of American children who depend on federal funding for a quality education, including those in poor and rural communities with parents who voted for Trump,
said Derrick Johnson, NAACP President The Department of Justice already has a civil rights office, and I think that there is an opportunity to discuss with Attorney General Bondi about locating some of our civil rights work there,
McMahon told reporters after the signing His directive to me, clearly, is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished,
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