Two sources familiar with NBC News said that the White House is preparing for an executive order to eliminate the Ministry of Education.
President Donald Trump cannot cancel a unilateral federal agency without the approval of Congress.
The planned matter comes after years of campaign promises from Trump to cancel the Ministry of Education.
In September 2023, the candidate at the time Publish a video To social media, saying: “There is something else that I will do early in the administration is to close the Ministry of Education in Washington, DC, send all education and education and need the United States.”
Trump said earlier in the video: “In the total American society, more than $ 1 trillion is poured annually in public education systems, but instead of being at the top of the list, we are rightly right – guessing – at the bottom,” Trump said earlier in the video.
Last week, Trump Another matter related to education occurred To expand the selection of schools, direct the Ministry of Education to issue instructions to the states within 60 days on how to use federal funds to enhance school selection programs in their states.
The choice of schools has always been the cornerstone of the Republican Party’s agenda, with a large number of countries led by Republicans that liberate more funding in recent years for low -income families to send their students to private or rented schools.
In recent years, “cleaning” or the federal education Ministry has also become a leadership plate for republican policy.
In the Republican Presidential Primary, Technical Entrepreneur Vivic Ramasuami called for the Ministry of Education to eliminate the campaign trained in Pennsylvania in 2023. Nikki Halley said that she will “clean the Ministry of Education” if elected during the 2023 campaign in New Hampshire.
In July 2024 Email the campaignTrump has put his other priorities for American education, which included federal funding cuts for any schools or programs that drive “critical race theory”, open civil rights investigations in schools to discriminate against Asian Americans, implement a new accreditation system to ratify teachers who “embrace national values” and “research[ing] And removal[ing] The extremists who infiltrated the Ministry of Education. “
