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2025-02-05 Home Front: Politix
White House press secretary on reports Trump will disband education department: 'Expect him to deliver'
Hostile takeover.
[FoxBusiness] Karoline Leavitt told FOX Business 'Trump campaigned on that promise'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to reports that President Donald Trump is planning to use executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education during an interview on FOX Business, Tuesday.

"President Trump campaigned on that promise, and I think the American people can expect him to deliver on it," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Stuart Varney on "Varney & Co." in response to a question on whether she can confirm Trump's plan.

Leavitt expanded, stating that it "goes back to his wanting to make this government accountable to the American taxpayer."

"When you look at the literacy rates, the math and the reading rates of young children and students in America, they are not good. Our nation's report card was released last week, and it showed that only 40% of fourth graders are reading at a proficient level. So clearly, the tens of millions of dollars that the Department of Education is spending every single year is not working. And President Trump wants to empower parents to have a greater say in their child's education system," she continued.

Officials reportedly discussed an executive order that would shut down the functions not written into the statute of the department, or move certain functions to other agencies.

As the president starts to take action on education, a White House official confirmed to Fox that Trump plans to reevaluate the future of the Education Department throughout his presidency.

Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on education, one to remove federal funding from K-12 schools that teach critical race theory (CRT), and another to support school choice.

The executive order states that any K-12 school that does not comply with the directive to end discrimination will lose all federal funding, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination over race, color, and national origin for any activity or program receiving federal funding.

According to Leavitt, closing down the Department of Education could be next on Trump's agenda.

Randi Weingarten sounds alarm about Trump moving to eliminate Education Dept: 'Not legal'

[FoxNews] Trump officials are reportedly mulling executive actions to eliminate the Department of Education.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ]  Top

#1 Trump preparing to majorly revamp Department of Education as math, reading scores show stunning lows
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-04 15:24||   2025-02-04 15:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Do it bigley!
Posted by Xyz 2025-02-05 00:16||   2025-02-05 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh please! Nothing but a fucking disaster since it was brought about in the 70s.
Posted by DarthVader 2025-02-05 00:31||   2025-02-05 00:31|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 I've taught at TAU and Weizmann Institute and a whole bunch of high schools and one college. That's your experience to decide that teachers' colleges do not need to be obliterated?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 01:50||   2025-02-05 01:50|| Front Page Top

#5 
Given the Democrats & NEA's Social Political agenda and control over how the Dept of Ed "WAS" ran. Plus its power to demand and dictate it to the states.

YES!!! It needs to go.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-05 05:16||   2025-02-05 05:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump Education Dept launches probe into 'explosion of antisemitism' at 5 universities

Put the FBI on it.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 07:55||   2025-02-05 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Teacher's unions protest Trump’s executive orders on education while school choice advocates cheer
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 09:33||   2025-02-05 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Huge, but still waiting on his promise to abolish DST.
[daylight saving time]
Posted by Angstrom 2025-02-05 09:54||   2025-02-05 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Justification for the end of DoEd in one slide...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-05 14:38||   2025-02-05 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Hostile takeover = the Leftist newspeek term for elections they don't win.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-05 17:35||   2025-02-05 17:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I suppose if the State Dept can cover USAid
then Health and Human Services can run the Dept of Education

Might be a good way to standardize scoring and vaccinations
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 19:44||   2025-02-05 19:44|| Front Page Top

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