AND Department of Education (DOED) initiates discrimination investigations into 45 universities for allegedly involved in Race-Zellet within its scholarships and graduate programs.
“The department is working to divert the implementation of civil rights to ensure that all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” said Linda McMahon Secretary of Education about the newly launched investigations. “Students must be evaluated according to merit and achievements, not prejudice to the color of their skin. We will not loosen up with this obligation.”
The work implements Nodiscrimination policy In schools financed by the Federal States through the Civic Rights Office (OCR). As they are reduced to the department, OCR will continue to “investigate the complaints and vigorously implement the federal laws on civil rights,” said Madi Biedermann, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communication at the Ministry of Education, in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
Other major aspects of the department include the supervision of some funds, the management of student loans, financial assistance and implementation of non -discrimination policies in schools, while most education is engaged in the state level.
Nearly half of the staff of the Education Department will be removed immediately
About 92% of all school assets come from non-federal sources. (East | Getty Images)
The department admits that “education is primarily state and local responsibility in the United States”, and about 92% of all school funds come from non-federal sources.
President Donald Trump He managed a significant reduction in the department as part of its goal to close it in the end “so that the states, instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, can run education.” But the administration said that the cuts made “will not directly influence students and family.”
One of the biggest offices in the Department is Federal Student Aid (FSA), which manages a free application for federal student assistance (FAFSA) and provides about $ 120.8 billion with scholarships or loans to students each year, says the department.
Trump’s administration has recently reduced almost half of the workforce at Doed. Still “[n]O employees working on FAFSA, servicing student loan and title for elementary and secondary education (ESEA) – including formula programs and discretionary scholarships – they influenced, “Biedermann said in a statement.
In its early years, the department has made specific requirements when distributing funds to schools, such as a request for higher education institutions to offer a program of drug abuse and alcohol prevention program under the Campus according to the Law on Schools and Communities without drugs, which was adopted in 1989.
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Linda McMahon’s education secretary visits “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel Studios in New York on March 7th. (Noam Galai)
When it comes to federal means, a contribution of about 8% of education financing, the distribution of some money usually differs depending on the administration.
A recent study previously reported by Fox News Digital has found that, under former President Joe Biden, DOD has spent $ 1 billion on grants that have progressed Dei in employment. The Biden administration allegedly spent $ 489,883.797 on a race grant based on a race, $ 343.33,337.286 for programming General Dei and $ 169,301.221 USD on the training and programming of mental health in the amount of DEI, according to the reports of parents.
Meanwhile, in 2025, Trump administration has reduced hundreds of millions in the financing of Dei Practice. The President warned that all institutions that fund higher education alliances practiced by dei initiatives can lose federal dollars.
“The federal government provides 10% of money, but it effectively sets more than half of public school policies,” said Max Eden, a senior colleague specializing in education at the American Institute for Enterprise (AEI), said Fox News Digital.
In Oklahoma, of 2024, all public schools must install the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their 5-10 grades. (East)
“If the department was reduced, the federal financial contribution would probably remain stable, but schools would be basically more free to manage towards local priorities and values.”
The department, however, does not develop demands for the curriculum that are left to state and local school committees.
In Oklahoma, since 2024, all public schools are obliged Include the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their Classes 5-10.
In the meantime, 2016, the Washington Public Teaching Office (OSPI) set up health education standards for public schools in a country that demanded children in kindergarten and first grade to find out that “there are many ways to express gender”.
In addition, the department does not accredit universities, which means that it does not determine whether the school meets a certain level of educational standards to obtain federal funding.
The morning sun is shining the front of the Washington Education Department, DC, February 4th. (Kevin Lamarque)
“The Federal Government does not control education – the states do it, local school committees. This is about possibilities,” McMahon said Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in the midst of a decrease in labor. “That’s why so many people are so angry about it, because they just take away the opportunity from children who do not have it.”
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Fox News Digital reached for the comment, but did not immediately get an answer.
Fox News Digital, Taylor Penley, Greg Wehner, Jamie Joseph and Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.
