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You're going to see a lot of support among House and I think Senate Republicans, for the general idea of pushing the decisions down, back down to the local level. I think that's something that would serve us all well."
In order to get buy in, you could eliminate the Department of Education, but you would take at least a portion of the money and give it back to the states in the form of block grants or something like that,
I think we need to get rid of the Department of Education. We need to get rid of the ATF. I’ve co-sponsored bills to do that for both of those."
Brandon Gill, R-Texas, said I mean, the American people are sick of funding left-wing activism with their taxpayer dollars,
The teachers unions will viciously fight, of course, any idea of disbanding the federal Department of Education. But I think the principle is one whose time has come. We've all seen the ratings. I mean, the U.S. is falling far behind other countries because the system is not working,
Johnson said in response to a question by Fox News Digital The constitutionality of any decision to shut down these departments and agencies will be challenged as the president cannot dissolve or consolidate agencies without the approval of Congress,
For President Trump to dissolve the Department of Education, he will have to abide by statutory law. First, he must present a 'reorganization plan' to Congress,
Congress would have to approve the president's reorganization plan within 90 days of the plan's presentation,
The president also cannot withhold funds allocated to agencies by law,
If it became a reality, Trump's power grab would steal resources for our most vulnerable students, explode class sizes, cut job-training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, take away special education services for students with disabilities, and gut student civil rights protections."
President Trump has already made clear his intentions to get rid of public education at every turn—including with his latest extreme proposal to completely eliminate the Department of Education,
We spend more per pupil than any other country in the world and we're ranked at the bottom of the list, we're ranked very badly. What I want to do is let the states run schools."
Please note the Deferred Resignation program (‘Fork in the Road’) expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday February 6th. There will not be an extension of this program.”
In an email to federal employees Tuesday following up on the original buyout proposal, OPM wrote It sounded like a commercial for a used car dealership, like, ‘Act now, one day only,
said one department official who attended the meeting We can get back to the basics that say our students ought to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, ... [We can] learn to work together, learn to create whatever we need for the future."
the Michigan Republican said on "Wake Up America." Since 1979, we've had the Department of Education, but before that, we had an education system that produced the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Communications Revolution,
This is one of many different things that this administration is exploring in the hope of getting towards that goal of reducing bureaucracy and ensuring that we are serving the American people as efficiently as possible,
Rachel Oglesby, the department’s chief of staff, told staff about the government’s deferred resignation program Will the department go into more restructuring and reshaping of its workforce? Yes,
Employees need to know what happens to these agreements if the Deptartment of Education is no longer an entity,
one employee commented during the meeting Folks are just incredibly anxious waiting for the other shoe to drop,
one Education Department employee said before the meeting
