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Trump’s administration has reduced almost half of the workforce of the US Department of Education, in the step towards the president’s promise to abolish the agency.
The education department announced on Tuesday that he was on his “final mission” because he announced that he would release more than 1300 workers.
That move comes as president Donald Trump It takes into account whether it will issue an executive order to close the department, although it would be needed by the rank of congress to completely abolish.
Linda McMahon Ministry of Education told Fox News last week to think that Trump “is safe to sign” an executive command that will lead to the closure of the department.
The department has long been the target of conservatives, who claim that education should be completely left in the control of individual countries, which set up teaching programs and resolve daily public public administration, or state, primary and medium -sized education systems.
The 2025 project, a draft for the conservative presidency, which made the right -wing heritage of the Foundation, invited the departments to remove the department.
Trump said he wanted “school states” and McMahon would “get out of work”.
“Today’s decrease in force reflects the dedication of the Department of Education of Efficiency, Liability and Providing Resources where the most important are: students, parents and teachers,” McMahon said on Tuesday. She called the move “a significant step towards restoring the size of the United States Educational System”.
The department will exceed 4,133 staff to about 2,183 employees. The cuts include 572 workers who volunteered to resign, including the federal buying of Trump administration. The affected employees will be placed on administrative leave starting on March 21.
The teachers warned that Families with lower income would be the hardest affected by the Evisceration of the Department.
The American Federation of Teachers said the decision would affect 90 percent of American children attending state or public schools. The reduction of labor was “throwing federal educational programs in chaos across the country,” said AFT President Randi Wentarten.
“Ten million students who rely on financial assistance to go to college or teach the trade will remain in the recess. States and environments will be forced to move in funding crises without federal support, causing the damage to millions of students with disabilities and students living in poverty, “she added.
Department of Education Supervisory Student Loads for the University, as well as special scholarships for higher education for low -revenue students, known as Pell Grarants. It also gives money to individual school districts for funding for primary and secondary education for low income children and special needs.
The agency said that it would continue to “deliver all the statutory programs that have been the agency’s operation, including the financing of formulas, student loans, PELL scholarships, students funding with special needs and competitively creating grants”.
