We're going to be returning education very simply back to
the states where it belongs, and this is a
very popular thing to do. With the stroke of
his pen, President Donald Trump took a big step
towards dismantling the Department of Education. He's not able
to fully eliminate the department without congressional approval, but
his executive order will dramatically scale down its function.
Nearly half of its staff has already been laid off
, and As it stands today, the department is
responsible for overseeing financial aid for 40 million Americans enforcing
civil rights laws in schools and overseeing funding for children
with disabilities. Trump asserts those children will be taken
care of by other federal agencies but didn't say which
ones exactly.