Education secretary Linda McMahon The administration is shutting down a nationwide visit to focus on promoting the goal of promoting the goal of promoting the goal of promoting the goal of the administration. Education departmentWhich is found with Congress and legal challenges.
“Returning Education to the States Tour” is set to take McMahon on a tour of all 50 states starting in Louisiana, where he met with leadership and teachers to discuss strategies to improve education. He told “CBS Morning Plus” that the approach is to focus on highlighting resources that can provide students to students, traditionally in exchange for those provided by the Department of Education.
“I think as we make this tour and as I see that we are the best practices and we provide these toolkit, we develop them and then distribute them in states and say that these are the things you can choose from. These are things that have been successful in other states. “I think each school system needs to work within its own community to decide whether the course works best there. Their students can learn? And that’s why it is important that education comes back to the states because when the states are creative and innovative, you will see the kind of progress you have seen here.”
President Trump released executive Order To start destroying the department in March, arguing that education policy and money should be abandoned. McMahon announced a cut of half of his workforce in the same month. Dowsizing has faced legal challenges, but Supreme Court Care allowed to continue In July.
In 2024, the department calculated less than 4% of the federal budget. Its responsibilities include overseeing federal student loan programs, distributing grants for low-income schools and implementing non-discrimination policies in schools. This does not determine the course.
The approval of the Congress will be required to completely abolish the department, given the general opposition to the Democrat to completely eliminate an unexpected proposal. Democrats say the closure of the department will create anarchy for students and families who rely on federal money for a patchwork of education programs.
In his tour, Secretary is highlighting Louisiana as it is the only state in the country that has shown improvement in primary literacy before the Kovid -19 epidemic, according to the review of the standardized test score of the fourth grader by the country’s report card. The review suggests that since 2019, Louisiana has finished final in the nation for the fourth grade reading score. Massachusetts currently topped the same time despite watching the declining score during the same time.
During that time, according to data from the Department of Education, Louisiana received more than $ 5 billion for the Covid-19 epidemic relief assistance related to education. That money has been used to fund a wide variety of educational programs, including additional teachers training and outreach efforts for students who are actively struggling.
Louisiana State Superintendent Education Superintendent Cad Brumley said that the use of those funds of his state shows why he is in support of the efforts of the Trump administration to destroy the education department.
“We were able to use the epidemic dollars around educational efforts that we knew that Louisiana was best for students in the state and actually worked,” Brumli said. “I think if we can continue working with Secretary McMahon and his team to loosen the restrictions around these funds, we can work with our state legislature, here with mothers and dads and local communities where those dollars have to be best for the needs of children in Louisiana state.”
If the education department is abolished, McMahon was also quick to separate concerns about funding for special education programs.
McMahon said, “I think at least worry that anyone should be like this because the Congress conserves the money and whatever flows through the agency is distributing it. So that the money flows from 1965 before the education department, and it will flow.”
It is not clear that if the education department is dissolved, which agency will be responsible for distributing special education grants. Currently, the department provides special education grant that complements the state’s funding for more than 7.5 million disabled students.
