Trump reduces the staff of the American Department of Education in the step of dismantling | News Donald Trump
Linda McMahon’s US Secretary of Education says the administration will cooperate with the US Congress at the abolition of the departments.
The Ministry of Education of the United States has announced that it will release almost half of its employees while President Donald Trump is moving to fulfill his promise of a campaign to remove the agency.
The department said on Tuesday that he would reduce the size of their workforce to approximately 2,183 employees by placing staff on administrative leave from March 21.
The department said he would continue to provide “all statutory programs” that belonged in his way, including student loans and financing for students with special needs.
Reducing the following are similar cracking circles taken as part of the launch of the Government Efficiency Department led by Elon Musk to radically simplify federal bureaucracy.
“Today’s decrease in force reflects the dedication of the Department of Education of Efficiency, Liability, and ensuring that the resources are directed to where the most important are: students, parents and teachers,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
“I appreciate the work of dedicated public officials and their contribution to the Department. This is a significant step towards restoring the size of the United States Education System. “
In an interview with Fox News later on Tuesday, McMahon, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO, confirmed that the release of the department was release.
“In fact, that’s because it was the president’s mandate,” she said.
“His directive towards me is obviously to close the education department, which we know we will have to work with Congress to achieve this.”
McMahon said the cuts were aiming for “bureaucratic blowing” and that “programs for dealing with the outside”, such as scholarships, would be preserved.
Trump advocated the abolition of the Department of Education, which he claimed was infiltrated by “radical, zealous and Marxists” and transferred responsibility for education to individual countries and local school districts.
In exchange with reporters last month, the US president said McMahon told McMahon that he wanted to “get out of work.”
Education in the United States is mostly provided by states and local communities, and the federal government provides only about 8 percent of the total financing for primary and secondary education.
Founded in 1979 by US Congress and former President Jimmy Carter, the basic functions of the Department of Education include providing financial assistance to schools, surveillance of the Student Loan Program and conducting civil rights.
Republicans opposed the department from its inception, claiming that educational policy should be engaged in the state and local level.
Former US President Ronald Reagan has repeatedly called for the dismantling of the department, but in the end he failed to win the support of Congress before leaving his position in 1989.
The National Association for Education, the biggest union of teachers in the United States, condemned the movement of Trump’s administration, accusing him of taking the “ball ball” to the future of about 50 million students.
“The real victims will be our most vulnerable students,” the President of the National Association for Education Becky Pringle said in a statement.
“The extraction of the Ministry of Education will send the size of the class, a reduction in job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle -class families, seize special education services for students with disabilities and the protection of civil rights to the gut.”
