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The Trump administration cut almost half of the US Department of Education in a phase of the pledge to abolish the president’s captain.
The Ministry of Education announced that it would dismiss more than 1,300 workers on Tuesday, saying that it is in the final mission.
Considering whether President Donald Trump will give an administrative order to close the department, parliamentary acts will be needed to be entirely abolished.
Linda McMahon, Minister of Education, thought last week, to Fox News that he would “sign up” in an administrative order that Trump would lead to the closure of the department.
This department has been the target of the Conservative Party for a long time, and that education should be entirely on the control of individual countries, which sets the curriculum and handles the everyday management of the state or state -owned primary and secondary education systems.
Project 2025, a conservative president’s blueprint, raised by the right -wing Heritage Foundation Think Tank called for the removal of the department.
Trump said, “The United States wants to run a school and McMahon wants to get out of work.”
On Tuesday, MCMahon said, “Today’s forced reduction reflects the Ministry of Education’s promise on efficiency and responsibility, and is reflected in the most important location that resources are instructed by students, parents and teachers. She called the movement as an “important stage to restore the greatness of the US education system.”
This department goes from 4,133 employees to about 2,183 employees. The cut includes 572 workers voluntarily resigned, including the Trump administration’s federal purchase. Employees affected will receive administrative leave from March 21.
Educators warned that low -income families would be the hardest with the eviction of the department.
The US Teachers’ Federation said the decision would affect 90 percent of American children attending state or public schools. AFT, chairman of Randi Weingarten, said, “The reduction of manpower is throwing federal education programs in the country’s chaos.”
“There will be 10 million students in Limbo who rely on financial support to go to college or seek transactions. The state and school districts must explore the crisis of financing without federal support, and harm millions of disabled students and students living in the poor. ”
The Ministry of Education supervises special higher education subsidies for low -income students known as the university’s student loans and Pell Grants. It also provides money to individual school districts to provide funds for elementary and secondary education for low -income and special children.
The agency still said, “We will still deliver all the legal programs belonging to the range of institutions, including official funding, student loans, PELL Grants, and the production of funds for special required students.
