President Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to close the Department of Education.
Trump is expected to sign an executive order following through on a campaign promise to disband the department, claiming on the campaign trail that the department was full of “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”
A White House fact sheet states that the move will “turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies. Trump and proponents of eliminating the department have long said the agency has failed American students.
“NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores reveal a national crisis — our children are falling behind,” Harrison Fields, the White House principal deputy press secretary, told Fox News. “Over the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors into the country, straining school resources and diverting focus from American students.”
“Coupled with the rise of anti-American CRT and DEI indoctrination, this is harming our most vulnerable,” he added. “President Trump’s executive order to expand educational opportunities will empower parents, states, and communities to take control and improve outcomes for all students.”
The directive comes after the Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), to lead the agency on March 3. McMahon issued a memo later that day outlining her support for the Trump administration’s plans for the department and that she would oversee a “new era of accountability” in the agency’s final days.
“The reality of our education system is stark, and the American people have elected President Trump to make significant changes in Washington,” McMahon said in the March 3 memo. “Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education — a momentous final mission — quickly and responsibly.”
The American Federation of Teachers issued a statement imploring Congress to oppose the executive order and “to make clear to the president that the federal government, in the face of this order, will not abdicate its responsibility to all children, students and working families, who deserve a future full of promise and possibility, not diminished dreams.”
The teacher’s union pointed to an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll conducted in February that found more than 60% of Americans “strongly oppose” eradicating the agency.
“The Department of Education, and the laws it is supposed to execute, has one major purpose: to level the playing field and fill opportunity gaps to help every child in America succeed,” the American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said in a March 5 statement. “Trying to abolish it — which, by the way, only Congress can do — sends a message that the president doesn’t care about opportunity for all kids. Maybe he cares about it for his own kids or his friends’ kids or his donors’ kids — but not all kids.”
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Perfect! Unions should be running our schools, teachers and parents should.
I think, you left out the word “not”.
Great, they have been brain washing our Children for decades. The federal government has been taking over way too much so they can control us all! Wake up America!!!!!!!!!
Democrats and the far left need a bloated government in order to secure votes to keep them in office. Without that base and the resulting pressure from them they would have hard times even finding employment after a record of complete failures, no substance, little production, and resistance. I am all for returning the DOE to each state and let them improve the system, the feds have mishandled it from the get go thinking that throwing money at a situation makes it better when in fact it makes it worse. To back my thoughts up, while States controlled their own education systems American was #1 in the world for education, innovation, collaborative success, and success. After DOE was Federalized everything fell apart from Core Subjects that are reqired for life, to sports, to unification of all races and moral charactor leadind Amerian Education to fall from #1 to the very high 20th position in the world. States can better regulate what is going on in School Districts, in the Schools, and in the Classrooms. Extreme radicalism from sexual orientation references, hiding gender pushes from parents, religeous training, and other extreme radical indoctrination should be eliminated from Public Schools. Every teacher should should sign a statement which should say they will only teach the core material and not display, distribute, or inflict any student with other than what is dictated by each State. To do would subject them to immediate and perminent dismissal as a teacher or administration.
Good the government doesn’t belong in our Schools,colleges, now get out of healthcare the government under the criminal obama, pelosi, destroyed our healthcare system that was one of the best in the world, I never paid over 20 dollars for any medication until these criminals that need prison time at hard labor, all demoncrates involved need to pay for their deliberate destruction of our healthcare system that and all these politicians need to get only obamacare we taxpayers should not pay for their healthcare at all
“The teacher’s union pointed to an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll conducted in February that found more than 60% of Americans “strongly oppose” eradicating the agency. ” That’s funny–no one asked me about my opinion.