President Trump’s push to shrink — and ultimately dismantle — the Department of Education just took a massive leap forward.
In a sweeping overhaul, the administration is breaking up the department and relocating huge chunks of its authority across the federal government. Key offices that control K-12 and higher education policy are headed to the Department of Labor. The Office of Indian Education is moving to Interior. Foreign-language programs go to the State Department. And child care access and medical education programs are shifting to Health and Human Services.
Meanwhile, the department’s workforce is being slashed from about 4,100 employees to nearly 2,000 — a dramatic cut that brings the administration closer to Trump’s longtime goal of shutting down the agency altogether.
Officials say the plan is simple: restore power to the states, slash federal bureaucracy, and end Washington’s grip on education policy. Supporters argue local communities — not distant bureaucrats — should run their own schools.
But critics are sounding alarms, warning about fragmented oversight and reduced protections. Some lawmakers are also questioning whether the administration has the authority to make such sweeping changes without Congress — which created the Department of Education in 1979 and would have to approve its full elimination.
ABC News highlights the escalating division taking shape on Capitol Hill:
National Parents Union (NPU) President Keri Rodrigues called the partnerships a “disaster,” calling on lawmakers to defend students impacted by the partnerships.
“By destabilizing the Department of Education, the Administration is undermining America’s long-term ability to compete, innovate, and lead on the world stage,” Rodrigues wrote in a statement to ABC News. “Congress must reject this misguided action and defend the rights, futures, and global potential of the students they serve.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the Trump administration is “hellbent” on punishing underserved students.
But House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said the status quo is broken and praised the Trump administration on making good on its promise to fix the Department of Education.
For now, the administration is using every available executive power to dismantle the agency piece by piece — and is openly signaling that more transfers may follow.
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Shut it down. This Country has paid a high price of generations of uneducated liberal drones that cannot do anything to work for a living but protest in the streets. I for one will cheer when the last Teacher’s union is shut down starting with this mess called the Department of Education Carter started to appease the Communist teacher’s unions!
“By destabilizing the Department of Education, the Administration is undermining America’s long-term ability to compete, innovate, and lead on the world stage,” Rodrigues wrote in a statement to ABC News. “Congress must reject this misguided action and defend the rights, futures, and global potential of the students they serve.”
WHY DO SO MANY STUDENTS GRADUATE UNABLE TO READ, WRITE, DO MATHMATICS OR SOLVE PROBLEMS?
WE ARE 39th in the world/
These defenders of our education system ARE LIARS.