Via executive order, the president stripped apart the centralized authority overseeing the American educational system on Thursday, marking the end of a 45-year-old institution.
Trump then announced who he said he hoped would be the agency’s last leader, Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Pell grants and Title I funding for low-income students, as well as resources for disabilities and special needs would be “fully preserved,” according to Trump, though the responsibility would be redistributed to “various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them, and that’s very important to Linda, I know, and very important to all of us.”
Ahead of the executive order, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the drastically downsized agency would continue to administer student loans and Pell grants, with that second part in direct contradiction to Trump’s ultimate announcement. She noted that “any critical functions” of the department would remain, such as providing funding for low-income students and enforcing anti-discrimination policies.
“History has proven them right,” Trump said, referring to people who opposed Carter’s creation.
The agency has historically been responsible for approving, monitoring, and distributing federal financial aid, such as Pell Grants and other aid made available to the public via the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. It’s also been responsible for assessing and analyzing America’s K-12 systems, as well as aggregating data and research on American educational policies. The department also oversaw the implementation of Title IX, and ensured that the American public had equal access to a valuable education.
The Education Department annually distributes $120.8 billion in grants and federal loans to college-bound students, according to the office of Federal Student Aid.
“We’re going to have 35 like, different ones,” Trump said during a campaign stop in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in August. “Iowa will do good. A lot of the states will do very good. I can think of probably 30–35 will be do—five will be OK, 10 will be OK.”
During the same rally, Trump blamed America’s low educational scores on the federal agency, while comparing individual states to countries that consistently place high on international education rankings, such as Denmark or Norway, which use national socialist structures to fund their public schools.
“We’ll work with them. We can all tell you who the laggards will be, right now probably, but let’s not get into that,” Trump said, before name-dropping his ex-home. “They’ll do a job. I think they’ll do a job, and they’ll go to sections of the state—for instance, New York, you’ll have a Manhattan and a Suffolk County and a Nassau County and a Westchester County.… Those counties I think are going to do very well.
Trump himself has said that his Department of Education plan involves handing the reins and lofty responsibilities of public school administration over to parents, who famously have all the time in the world to oversee educational curricula while simultaneously working jobs and raising their children.
But erasing the federal funding pipeline will only serve to hurt students in low-income areas around the country. The federal government provides 13.6 percent of funding for public K-12 education across the nation. In states such as Virginia, whose state lawmakers advocated in November for the end of the Education Department, federal dollars account for approximately 12 percent of the state’s education funding, according to the Education Data Initiative.
This story has been updated.
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