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Schools Face Uncertainty as Education Dept. Dismantled
The Trump administration aims to increase state control by transferring key education offices to Labor and State Departments, with federal education funding at 8.5% of local budgets.
- On Thursday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the Trump administration will move the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education to the U.S. Labor Department and reassign International Foreign Language Education to the U.S. State Department.
- Framing the changes as state-empowering, the administration says the shifts end a centralized bureaucracy, giving state and local education officials more discretion instead of imposing federal edicts.
- The department's budget has risen to $268 billion in fiscal 2024, while critics cite growth from $14 billion and lagging U.S. test scores amid federal share of local education spending at about 8.5%.
- It would take an act of Congress to eliminate the Education Department, but the White House can reorganize functions administratively, and funding for low-income students and students with disabilities will continue indefinitely with ongoing civil-rights protections for students.
- Politically, the move fits a multi-decade GOP effort as Republican leaders since Ronald Reagan vowed to dismantle the Education Department, with President Donald Trump credited for advancing this pledge while critics warn federal mandates burden local school districts.
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