Randa Wentarten sounds alarm because of Trump moving to remove the education department: “Not legal”
The head of the second largest teacher of teachers in the country warned that there could be legal complications and risk of privacy if President Donald Trump’s administration is successful in dismantling Department of Education.
Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Trump officials are considering executive actions to remove the department as part of the Government Efficiency Ministry of Government to reduce the federal government.
According to reportTrump counselors discuss the executive order to “extinguish all agencies functions that are not explicitly written into the statute or transfer certain functions to other departments,” and would invite the legislative proposal to fully abolish the department.
During the CNN appearance Tuesday, the president of the US Federation of Teachers, Randa Weingarten, said Trump was illegal, and she expressed concern about the risk of privacy that was involved in the overhaul of the Federal Agency.
Randi Wentarten, head of the National Teachers Union, warned of President Trump’s move to eliminate the Department of Education. (Afthq YouTube channel)
“That move is not legal,” Wentarten told host Kate Bolduan. “There are many things about the Ministry of Education that are in the Statute,” she said about the funds coming out of the department in a family with low income, students with disabilities, English as students of another language and on work programs.
“You talk about millions of children. And what this department truly does is that it actually ensures that money is out and has not been stolen. In fact it is used for the purposes provided. These are the most important functions of the Department of Education,” she claimed.
Wentbarten denied that the Agency had managed a curriculum in schools, but served more than the Financial Assistance Office.
Labor leader claimed that he should be more federal control over education, saying that there should be a federal policy that helps schools compete with China.
Randi Wentarten, president of the US Federation of Teachers, has developed reports that President Donald Trump is taking measures to remove the education department. (CNN/screenshot)
She suggested that she trained in schools can be one way to help students and create more American jobs.
“We need a federal policy that actually has children, boys, who have more opportunities in high school to do such things, become technicians and welders and similar things. This should do the Federal Department of Education. In fact, US jobs are growing.”
Wentbarten also claimed that removal of the educational department could create risks of privacy.
“Consider the treasury and in the view of education, the amount of personal, private financial information that the department has, just as the cashier has all the information about social insurance, all information about taxes. In the Ministry of Education, it has so much personal information for people. .
“Nobody chose Donald Trump or Elon Musk to download their private information,” Wentarten warned.
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President Trump vowed on the trace of the campaign to remove the education department and restore power to the states. (Getty Images)
Review of the Education Department comes as A new report From the organization of Watchdog, the parents who defend the education determine that the Federal Department had awarded more than $ 200 million to 48 universities for injection of diversity, capital and content of including the counseling courses from 2021.
The latest data from the Department of Education also show that the reading skills of American students continued to decline from Pandemia Coid-19.
IN 2024. Nation report card He discovered that reading results fell two points for fourth and eighth grade students. Mathematical results remained almost unchanged for eighth grade and scored two points for fourth grade, which is still three points lower than the average result in 2019 for the fourth grade mathematics.
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“Today’s NAEP results reveal a heart reality for American students and confirm our worst fears: not only that most students have not recovered from losing learning about pandemia, but those students who have been the most backward and need the most support , “The Ministry of Education states in a statement. “Despite the billions of dollars that the Federal Government invests in the education of K-12 per year and approximately $ 190 billion of federal pandemic funds, our education system continues to collapse to students across the country.”
The 2024 report card revealed that reading results fell two points for fourth and eighth grade students. (East)
Wentbarten has previously claimed that AFT members are indifferent to the appearance to abolish the education department.
During appearance on MSNBC In November, she said, “My members do not really worry if they have a bureaucracy at the Education Department or not. In fact, Al Shaker and the back of the 1970s opposed his creation. We thought he should stay inside Hew ( Department of Health, Education and Welcome) because of the whole child. “
2019 Wentbarten over half a million dollars In her job annually, according to AFT’s internal revenue service, Form 990. Her salary was more than nine times more than the average salary of teachers in the United States
