Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren Save our school campaign is launching a complete survey of the Trump administration’s efforts to close the Ministry of Education.
“I open this survey to hear students, parents, teachers and borrowers who are injured by the dangerous agenda of Trump, wrote Warren in a statement obtained by ABC News.
“Their stories count-and they are why I am in this fight,” she said.
Warren said that since Trump’s decision effectively abolished the agency, the Americans have explained to him how public education had shaped and strengthened their lives. She sent a letter to a dozen education and civil rights groups, seeking answers to the impact of the abolition of the department which will have an impact on millions of students and families.
Senator Elizabeth Warren questions the commercial representative Jamieson Greer during a hearing of the Senate finance committee in the Dirksen Senate Office building, April 8, 2025.
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The letters went to NAACP, Nea, back and several other groups. In them, Warren described Trump’s plan to close the Department and ostensible to education power and the decision to states an “imprudent crusade”.
“I ask for your help to understand if the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the ministry will endanger students’ access to affordable, accessible and high quality public education,” Warren wrote in the series of letters.
Warren requests details on how students and families will be affected by any reduction in financing or services if the education service is abolished or that its functions are transferred to other federal agencies. The groups have until May 22 to answer.
The Democrat and former teacher of the Massachusetts public schools describes what she calls the key functions of the Department of Education in each letter, including the protection of the civil rights of students, the financing of disabled students, the financing of research which helps educators and students and the distribution of federal financial assistance for students to reach higher education.
“School districts are already preparing for potential funding delays or cuts caused by the dismantling of the department, states learning to the impact of these financing disturbances on programs such as free school lunches for low -income students,” wrote Warren.
Educational secretary Linda McMahon has a television interview at the White House, April 16, 2025, in Washington.
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But the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, previously told ABC News “that none of the financing will stop” for compulsory programs, arguing that more funding could go to the United States if the ministry is eliminated. It would also take 60 votes “yes” to the Senate to overcome a democratic filibusier and completely dismantle the agency created by the congress.
The president of the National Parent Union Keri Rodrigues denounced the president and McMahon’s mission to close the agency, calling it a “constitutional crisis on almost all fronts”.
The president of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson, said that the administration “deliberately dismantled the basic functions of our democracy, a play at a time”.
The complete Warren survey also occurs at around 2,000 employees in the education department be separated of the agency. The Department of Education has been reduced in two, including hundreds of federal students of students’ assistance (FSA) whose jobs that Warren stressed are of crucial importance for students in need. In addition, Warren said that the agency’s reduction in the staff will have “disastrous consequences” for more than 40 million borrowers of student loans in the country.
An external view of the building of the Ministry of Education, March 13, 2025, in Washington, DC
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Launched in April, its Save Our Schools campaign promised to retaliate against the administration decree entitled Improving the results of education by empowering parents, states and communities.
Thanks to a combination of federal surveys, surveillance, narration and prosecution, Warren said that she would work with the community, including congress legislators, to do everything she could to defend public education.
“The federal government has invested in our public schools,” said Warren in an exclusive interview with ABC News.
“Removing this to our children so that a handful of billionaires can be even richer is simply ugly and I fight it with everything I have.”
