There is a lot of confusion on Trump projects as regards the education sector. As usual Trump threatens, then he takes steps back or in any case brakes and takes time when he realizes that he is not, again, an absolute dictator.
The president has never made a secret of his will to abolish the Department of Education, accused of promoting progressive ideas. Established in 1979 by the will of the then democratic president Jimmy Carter, the Department supervises funding for public schools, administers the loans to students and manages programs that help low -income students. Trump accused the agency of “indoctrinate young people with racial, sexual and inappropriate political and political material”.
During the election campaign for Trump presidential elections he had undertaken to get rid of the education department and transfer all the skills to individual states. So much that he had asked Linda McMahonentrepreneur in the wrestling sector appointed secretary to education, to “make himself unemployed”.
According to a draft of the potential executive order of Trump regarding education, the republican president would have given order to McMahon to “take all the necessary measures” to close the department. Speaking in a press conference on March 12, Trump said that the goal is to move the Department of Education in States, “so that they are the states, instead of the bureaucrats who work in Washington … to manage education”.
However, the closure of the department is an act that requires a decision by the congress. As an intermediate stage towards any suppression, the Department has issued a declaration in which it states that it will cut almost 50% of its workforce: for just over 4,100 effective to about 2,200. According to the announcement, the staff concerned will be put on administrative leave starting from March 21st. The declaration confirms that “all divisions” within the agency will be affected by the cuts, but also adds that it will continue to provide programs protected by the law. Meanwhile, several states, led by governors of the Democratic Party, are already organizing a legal battle to counter the President’s plan in the courts.
