President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a plan to eliminate the Department of Education to 'send all education work and needs back to the States.'
The Trump team is already in talks with private prisons to expand immigration detention centers and is considering restarting family detentions, sources tell ABC News.the Department of Education to "send all education work and needs back to the states," according to his Agenda47 policy platform.
In the 1960s and 1970s, anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts shaped the Department of Education's mission to provide equal access to education nationwide. This led to the founding of Title I funding to reduce educational achievement gaps between low-income and rural students and non-low-income schools.
However, it has played a major role in school funding for decades, particularly as state investment in K-12 schools worsened amid the 2008 Great Recession., U.S. students lost almost $600 billion from states' disinvestment in their public schools in the decade following the Great Recession. "What I've seen most often, and I've written about myself, is you could, for instance, take all the K-12 money, Title One, IDEA etc. -- You would, of course, have to change the law, but one of the things you could do is block grant it; You'd say, 'we're going to fund these things, but we're going to give it to the state so they can decide how it's administered,'" he told ABC News.
However, on the campaign trail, in interviews with Elon Musk and on "Fox & Friends," Trump has repeatedly said he wants to shutter the agency and instead choose one education department official for his Cabinet, aligning with Trump's goals of dismantling "government bureaucracy" and restructuring the government agencies for more efficiency.
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