By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 14:14:03 | Updated at 2024-11-24 00:58:00
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What the next Trump presidency could mean for US education
Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | November 18, 2024 | CNN Bitter LOSERS
Posted on 11/18/2024 6:05:26 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out some big changes for education in the US.
Much of his platform focuses on rolling back the federal government’s role in schools and giving states and parents more of a say in what children learn, with the goal of rooting out any “left-wing indoctrination.”
Trump’s campaign also hammered Democrats over transgender issues and pledged to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
In some areas, like student loans, the next Trump administration could undo the regulatory changes made under President Joe Biden.
And with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress come January, there could be movement on legislation that establishes a nationwide school choice program.
Here are some of the things Trump has pledged and how or whether they could become reality: Abolishing the Department of Education
Pledge: Trump has repeatedly said he will close the federal Department of Education, sending authority over education back to the states and saving taxpayer dollars.
How it can be done: Trump will need Congress to get rid of the Department of Education, which administers federal funding appropriated by Congress to K-12 schools and manages the federal student loan and financial aid programs. It’s unclear if he will have the support from enough lawmakers to do so.
Trump’s first administration proposed merging the Education and Labor departments, but the idea didn’t go anywhere despite having Republican control of both the House of Representatives and Senate at the time.
It’s possible that some programs and funding could be retained and shifted to other agencies, which is where they were housed before the department was created in 1979.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: education; trump
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President Trump (or his appointment) will be addressing:
Abolishing the Department of Education
Universal school choice
LGBTQ rights
Parental rights
Student loans
To: Diana in Wisconsin
We are 50 separate mostly sovereign countries within a single federation called the USA. Same as the member countries of the EU.
We all have our own education departments. How many levels of bureaucracy do we need?
2 posted on 11/18/2024 6:07:40 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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