2,000 jobs there already have been chopped, plan calls for a remnant to remain for specific responsibilities
By Bob Unruh
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that launched the cancellation of the Department of Education.
Critics of the move immediately promised court challenges, like the more than 100 other challenges that have been brought to mostly left-leaning judges trying to halt Trump’s agenda to clean fraud, waste and corruption out of the federal government spending.
A report at Fox News said Trump’s signature fulfilled a campaign promise to return control of education policy to the 50 different state education departments.
Actually, local school districts are run by local school boards in conjunction with state standards and requirements, which was one of the reasons for dismantling the federal bureaucracy.
The order actually is expected to scale down federal operations significantly, but it would be up to Congress to actually end the department.
On the campaign trail, Trump expressed a plan to “stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.” In fact, many of the federal programs do take the positions of far-left advocates which become policy and practice for states then.