BBC News, Washington
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would extinguish the US Ministry of Education – a long goal of conservatives.
That move would fulfill the promise he gave on the trail of the campaign.
Trump plans to end some of the departments programs, while others would be located in different parts of the Government, according to US media reports.
The Republican President will direct his newly confirmed education minister Linda McMahon to “take all the necessary steps to make it easier to close the education department” based on “maximum scope of a suitable and allowed law,” the Wall Street Journal said in the order of the order.
However, the abolition of the department requires, however, the rank of congress.
Founded in 1979, the education department is monitored by public school financing, manages student loans and run programs that help students with low income.
Trump and his allies have accused the Agency of “Indoctriniting Youth with inappropriate Rasa, Sexual and Political Material.”
In December, he appointed former World Worth Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) executive director and his transitional co -predation Linda McMahon, as his selection of education secretary. The Senate has yet to be scheduled for the confirmation process for McMahon.
What is the education department doing?
The frequent misconception is that the education department is managing US schools and installing teaching programs – this responsibility actually belongs to the states and local districts.
The agency is overseen by student loan programs and manages Pell Grants who help students with low revenue to attend the university.
It also helps financing programs to support students with disabilities and for students living in poverty.
And the Department is being implemented by the Civic Rights Act intended to prevent races discrimination or gender in schools financed by federal states.
What is his budget and how many people work there?
The distribution of the department was $ 238 billion (188 billion pounds) in the fiscal year 2024. – less than 2% of the total federal budget.
The agency says there are about 4,400 employees, which is the smallest of any ward at the cabinet level.
Most public funds for US schools come from state and local governments.
In 2024, the initiative for educational information estimated that the United States spends a total of just over $ 857 billion on primary and secondary education – which is equivalent to $ 17,280 per student.
Can Trump exclude the department?
On its own, no.
Not only will Trump take the Congress’s approval to get rid of the departments, but he will probably need a supermarket in the US Senate – 60 of 100 senators.
Republicans have a majority of 53-47 in Senate, so they will need at least seven democrats to vote for the abolition of the agency – political rainbow.
Even in the House of Representatives, Trump would fight to get the necessary support.
Last year voting for the abolition of the Department of Education – which was attached as an amendment to another law proposal – failed to pass because 60 Republicans joined all Democrats in the House to vote no.
Trump has switched to reducing other government departments in recent weeks, despite questions about the legality of these moves.
The earlier draft of Trump’s commands for removing the education department, which received the Washington Post last month, admitted that only Congress could be resolved by agencies, but the executive action could direct the agency to start down.
Employees of the Department of Education are among those who are the focus of the administration effort reduce the federal workforce.
Why do Republicans want to abolish it?
The idea of removing the Department of Education, Republicans floated for almost as long as it existed.
During the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, he encouraged him to be dismantled.
Republicans have historically pushed themselves against centralizing educational policies, believing that it is best to leave it to individual countries and sites.
More recently, they have accused the education department of pushing what they describe as a “awakened” political ideology of children, including gender and race.
Trump’s allies also want to expand the selection of school, which would allow students and families to use public money to choose private or religious alternatives to public schools.
Conservatives claim that other functions of the Department of Education, such as lending leds, should instead be managed by the Ministry of Finance of the United States that the misdemeanors of civil rights of the Domain of the Ministry of Justice are.
