President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to dismantle the US Department of Education, fulfilling a campaign promise. He accused the department of being wasteful and influenced by liberal ideology. The order calls for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the closure of the department and return authority over education to states and local communities.
The order offers no details on how the dismantling will be carried out, but the White House mentioned that the agency will retain certain critical functions such as managing federal student loans. Trump blamed the department for America’s lagging academic performance and stated that states will do a better job.
Critics of the order, including the NAACP, believe that eliminating the department will leave millions of American children without federal funding for education, particularly those in poor and rural communities. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the order a “tyrannical power grab” and vowed to fight against it.
However, dismantling the agency will most likely require an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979. Republicans have expressed plans to introduce legislation to achieve this, while Democrats have already opposed the idea.
Despite Trump’s efforts to further shrink the department’s workforce and decrease funding to certain divisions within it, the order faces significant opposition and challenges in Congress. It remains to be seen how this decision will impact the education system in the US moving forward.
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