President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to shutter the federal Department of Education and relegate all educational responsibility to individual states—a move that could impact crucial funding for K-12 schools and hamper civil rights enforcement—but experts warn it’s unlikely the federal government will be able to be hands off when it comes to education regulation, even if the department is closed.
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00:00President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to shutter the Federal Department of
00:04Education and regulate all educational responsibility to individual states, a move that could impact
00:11crucial funding for K-12 schools and hamper civil rights enforcement.
00:15But experts warn it's unlikely the federal government will be able to be hands-off when
00:19it comes to education regulation, even if the department is closed.
00:23Trump has called the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter,
00:28an example of government oversight into the daily lives of Americans.
00:32He suggested it's been a poor investment for taxpayers, claiming the U.S. spends three
00:36times more money on education than any other nation, quote, and yet we are absolutely at
00:42the bottom.
00:43We're one of the worst.
00:44Billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump superdaughter who is expected to hold some kind of role
00:49in his next administration, on Monday called closing the Department of Education a quote
00:54good idea.
00:55While closing the Department of Education seems to be high on the priority list for
00:59Trump, his Agenda 47 proposals surrounding education also outline orders for schools
01:04that would no longer be the federal government's purview if all responsibilities were handed
01:08back to the states, including cutting funding for any school teaching critical race theory
01:13or quote transgender insanity and credentialing teachers who quote embrace patriotic values
01:19and support the American way of life.
01:22Ronald Reagan campaigned on getting rid of it in 1980, Bob Dole argued in favor of eliminating
01:27it during his 1996 Republican presidential campaign against Bill Clinton, and both Senators
01:32Ted Cruz and Rand Paul called for its elimination in 2015.
01:37For more on this story, check out Mary Whitfield Roloff's article in the link in the description.