President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive decree on Thursday to reduce the Ministry of Education in the White House, several sources said in ABC News.
The President’s order will order the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take all the necessary measures authorized by law to dissolve the Ministry of Education, according to sources.
This decision has been for months and will help the president to carry out his campaign promise to return education power and decisions in the United States.
Trump orders McMahon to take “all the measures necessary to facilitate the closure of the Ministry of Education and the return of the Authority for Education to States”, according to a white house summary of the order examined by ABC News.
The order also provides for the “uninterrupted service of services, programs and advantages that Americans count”. We still do not know how the administration plans to achieve it. Sources have indicated that the administration had studied how to move some of the main programs to other agencies.
Govs Republicans. Ron Desantis of Florida, Glenn Youngkin from Virginia, Greg Abbott from Texas and Mike Dewine de l’Ohio are among the heads of state who should attend the signing ceremony at the White House, according to a white house manager.
The ministry took the first steps to reduce its workforce and close last week when it dismissed almost half of its employees, and it has considerably reduced in size thanks to a massive reduction in force, deferred resignations and retirement buyouts, according to the ministry.
Officials and supporters of the Ministry of Education gather outside the department of Washington, March 11, 2025.
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Trump should also continue the reforms – committing to erase more agency staff and the intester.
“I expect it to be [be shut down entirely]”Said Trump on” full measure “with Sharyl Attkisson earlier this month.” You will have a few people just to make sure you [the states are] Teach English – You know, you say reading, writing and arithmetic. “”
However, the approval of the congress is necessary to abolish a federal agency, and McMahon acknowledged that it would need the congress to carry out the president’s vision to close the department it had been exploited to lead. It would take 60 votes “yes” to the Senate to overcome the filibusier and dismantle the agency created by the congress.
Linda McMahon, candidate of President Trump, as an education secretary, testifies before a confirmation audience of the Senate, Education, Labor and the Pension Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on February 13, 2025.
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Critics argue that the ministry is necessary for vital financial and subsidy programs. Educational experts have suggested that the closing the Ministry of Education could prohibit the financing of public education and affects high -level students in a disproportionate manner across the country that counts on programs authorized by law, such as the law on the education of disabled people and title 1, which provides funding for low -income families.
McMahon said the agency will always administer the statutory programs on which students from disadvantaged backgrounds count. In an interview on “The Ingraham Angle” by Fox News, McMahon suggested that the “good” employees who administer statistically compulsory functions will not be injured by staff discounts.
A declaration from the ministry said that it “will continue to deliver all statutory programs which are the responsibility of the agency’s competence, including the financing of the formula, student loans, Pell subsidies, financing of students with special needs and competitive subsidies”.
In addition to four decades, Trump and the skeptics of the Ministry of Education think that the agency had too much spending power without obtaining results.
After McMahon was sworn in, she stressed that the agency’s abolition is rooted to allow families to choose a “quality education” so that America students are not “stuck in failing schools”.
