- Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s peak of education secretary, has a confirmation audience on Thursday.
- He comes in the midst of Trump’s statements that he would like to dismantle the Ministry of Education.
- The Department facilitates the federal subsidy and the student locuments system and the application of civil rights.
Imagine you are Interview for a new role As head of department, and part of the description of the position is to close the division.
This is what seems to happen to Linda McMahon, president Donald TrumpSector of choice for education. Its role would lead the department that oversees schools, collects student data and manages the Federal Student Aid SystemBut before she even appeared before the legislators on Thursday for her confirmation hearing, Trump said he was completely aiming for the department.
“I said to Linda,” Linda, I hope you are doing a great job and that you have put yourself out of a job. “I want her to get out of a job,” Trump said Journalists on February 4, adding on February 12 that he wanted the Ministry of Education to be closed “immediately”.
By announcing McMahon as his choice as an education secretary in November, Trump posted on Truth Social that one of her goals for her was to “send education to the United States”. Trump and some GOP legislators have declared that education can be managed at the local level and that a federal agency is not necessary.
Trump has also signed a decree to “promote patriotic education” in public schools and eliminate ideologies that do not line up with his policy. The Ministry of Education does not control the class study program.
The elimination of any federal agency requires the approval of the congress and while certain republican legislators have presented legislation Get rid of the Ministry of EducationThere has not yet been enough support to get there.
McMahon recognized these mechanisms during its confirmation audience, saying that the ministry “clearly cannot be closed” without congresses.
However, in recent weeks, Trump has worked to reduce many functions of federal agency dismissing staff and canceling the programs they supervise, as he recently did with the American agency for international development .
Here are some of the main responsibilities of the Ministry of Education which would be affected if the agency stops.
Manages grants and student loans
One of the main tasks of the Ministry of Education is to facilitate the portfolio of $ 1 Billion. More than 40 million borrowers of student speakers hold federal loansand the Federal Office for Aid to students from the ministry works with Student housing agents To manage the reimbursement of borrower loans.
The FSA is also responsible for managing a range of reimbursement and housing rescue programs for students, including Publicizing the loan of the public service program. It develops free demand for federal aid to students, or FafaForm for students each year and offers pell subsidies to low -income and intermediate income students.
In addition, the department manages subsidies for American public schools. These include financing the title I, which gives funds to the school districts of low -income communities, as well as the financing of the districts that teach disabled students.
Some Republicans previously suggested that the Treasury Department could facilitate these programs without the Department of Education; The displacement of these responsibilities would be an important company, said experts in educational policy.
Data collection on students’ results
The research branch of the Ministry of Education collects data to monitor the main results of students, including mathematics and Read literacy scores. The most recent scores, collected by the national assessment of educational progress, revealed that reading literacy continued to decrease.
Nat Malkus, a senior scholarship holder and deputy director of education policy for the conservative reflection group, the American Enterprise Institute, had previously declared to Bi that “if it was not for the Ministry of Education”, We couldn’t even know where Children’s control levels stay.
The Institute of Educational Sciences, a non -partisan research arm within the department, finances research on national education issues, including the quality of teachers, educational interventions and reform in class at all levels.
State training agencies collect data according to federal declaration requirements; The Department of Education mainly follows global national trends in American schools and finances data collection.
Supervises schools and colleges
The Ministry of Education Civil Rights Office is responsible for the survey on complaints of discrimination in kindergarten schools and colleges in the 12th year. More recently, the office resolved A complaint concerning anti-Palestinian discrimination on a university campus.
According to the ministry’s budget documentsThe civil rights office received more than 22,000 complaints during the 2024 financial year, largely on the subjects of discrimination based on sex and based on disability. The office provided that it would receive more than 23,000 complaints during the year 2025.
Although it is not clear how Trump would go about his plans to dismantle the Department of Education, some republican legislators previously suggested to move the responsibilities of the department to other federal agencies, as the department From the treasure supervises subsidies and loans.
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