Act aims to decentralize knowledge, switch jobs from Department of Education to various agencies
Following President-elect Trump’s claims to decentralize learning, Republican Senator Mike Rounds introduced a bill to abolish the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday.
According to Fox News, the” Returning Education to Our States Act” may move the department’s current duties to several different agencies and initiatives it is currently in charge of.
Rounds ( pictured ) described the legislation as” a roadmap to removing the federal department of education by practically reestablishing these federal programs in the appropriate departments.”
Rounds told Fox News,” This bureaucratic Department that causes more harm than good has never educated a single student.
He also said,” ]l ] ocal school boards and state Departments of Education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D. C”.
Trump’s campaign pledge to abolish the Department of Education is followed by the new act.
Trump said at a September protest in Wisconsin,” We will discharge the state education lake and stop the abuse of your tax money,” according to The College Fix.
The department is in charge of many things, including laws allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s collegiate sports, financial support and student loans for college students, and funding for career and vocational training.
The organization “was established in 1979 when President Jimmy Carter ratified regulations establishing it as a cabinet-level organization.” Shells ‘ bill would transfer the U. S. to pre-1979 routines when another federal government agencies handled training problems”, The Daily Wire reported.
According to the Daily Wire, the new work “would need the Department of Health and Human Services to take over illness programs, the Department of Labor to get over profession programs, the State Department to oversee “research and training efforts globally,” loan and grant programs to collapse under the Department of Treasury, and American Indian education programs to collapse under the Department of the Interior,” according to the Daily Wire.
Also this week, Trump announced he will nominate Linda McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration during his first term, for education secretary, The Fix reported.
In a statement on Tuesday, Trump said,” Linda will use her decades of leadership experience, as well as her thorough understanding of both business and education, to empower the next generation of American students and workers and to place America first in terms of education.”
” We will send education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort”, he said.
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