According to The Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump is anticipated to sign an executive order to disband the Department of Education, perhaps on Thursday.
The journal quoted a number of individuals who were briefed on the situation and looked over an order draft.
It instructs Linda McMahon, the recently appointed Education Secretary, to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” in accordance with “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
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“The experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars—and the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support—has failed our children, our teachers, and our families,” the draft directive states.
McMahon declared shortly after she was appointed that she would “send education back to the states.”
Trump claims that the Department of Education has failed American kids and has long advocated for its abolition.
“It’s a big con job,” the president declared in November. “They listed the world’s top nations. Although we rank 40th, we are first in one category: cost per student. Therefore, despite spending more per student than any other nation in the world, we are placed 40th.
The “ENDDEI” portal has been launched by the education department to allow parents, students, and teachers to report instances of discrimination.
Writing to the Senate’s Democratic members of the HELP committee, McMahon stated that she “wholeheartedly” supported Trump’s proposal to dismantle the department.
The department is the smallest cabinet-level organization, employing only 4,500 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. In anticipation of anticipated workforce reductions, it is already providing an incentive of up to $25,000 to the majority of its employees who quit or retire by Monday night.
“President Trump thinks that in order to restore education to the states, where it belongs, the bureaucracy in Washington should be eliminated. “I completely agree with and support this mission,” McMahon stated.
According to McMahon’s letter, the department will operate under three guiding principles: that parents should make the majority of decisions regarding their children’s education, that taxpayer-funded education should once again emphasize “meaningful learning in math, reading, science, and history—not divisive DEI programs and gender ideology,” and that post-secondary education should be a route to a lucrative career that is in line with labor demands.
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