Trump's Plan to Gut Education Department Will Hit Red States Hardest

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

Trump’s Plan to Gut Education Department Will Hit Red States Hardest

Malcolm Ferguson
Tue, February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM EST·1 min read

Trump is preparing an executive order to abolish the Department of Education—a move that will undoubtedly hurt teachers, students, and parents in red states the most.

The draft order will direct the department to slash spending and slash staff, according to The Washington Post. Such an aggressive decision on such a large scale would have sweeping consequences.

“The Dept of Education provides crucial funding for low-income public schools—eliminating it would result in the loss of 6% of teachers’ jobs nationwide,” former adviser for Barack Obama, Steven Rattner, wrote on X.



Rattner shared a chart based on data from the Center for American Progress on states’ K-12 education funding under Title I, the Education Department’s main federal program to help low-income students. Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Nevada, and Arizona—states that all went for Trump—are the most reliant on that funding, and the most likely to lose hundreds of teachers under Trump’s proposals. Many other red states are not far behind. This will likely lead to a devastating domino effect of educational instability in states that need it the most.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-plan-gut-education-department-202941582.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP wants a voucher system to support private schools.

Public schools will either die out or be staffed with babysitters, no credentials.

[multigraincracker]

2. His base are the billionaires and uneducated.

Like to mention his quote to anyone wearing one of those red hats. Then tell them they sure don’t look like a billionaire.

[doc03]

3. He wants the whole country to be Red state

knucle-dragging buffoons.

[doc03]

4. I heard him talking about eliminating the DOE

yesterday. He repeated the same lines over and over at least 10 times. I am 77 I sometimes
catch myself repeating something once but 10 times. His fucking "Big Brain" is mush.

[Igel]

5. Rather depends on some assumptions.

Is the funding obligatorily tied to the existence of the DOE?

Or do the programs exist and find housing in the DOE?

I remember when the DOE was formed, it didn't start with one person looking for an office and then gradually acquire tasks and personnel. The DOE was assembled from education-related programs and functions scattered around the federal government, and grew from a base of programs that existed and had histories before the DOE existed.

[Eugene]

6. The various agencies and programs are created by statutes and funded by appropriations.

Congress created the Department of Education in 1979 to manage existing programs.

For example, the Higher Education Act of 1965 is administered and funded through the DoE.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10551/7

In FY 2024, School Readiness (including Head Start) is appropriated
under the Department of Education.

https://www.ed.gov/media/document/d-pippdf-39338.pdf
(archived)

Congressional appropriations are specific, granting the executive some discretion.
However, a president cannot abolish an agency and reprogram assets
without congressional approval.