NOT MY pres musk, NOT MY pres drumpf / trump, NOT MY vice pres vance, not the gop / greed over people-republican party must be challenged, fought and stopped, they do not have authorization from the electorate or from the U.S. Constitution to destroy the Dept of Education. The ACLU has taken on this battle and needs all of us to join their campaign by clicking the link below and once you have done that if you can make the time find your representative's e mail address click here, for your senator's e mail addresses ( e mail both ) click here, to e mail the White House click here, let them know you expect them to save and maintain the Dept of Education! Share this with family, friends and co-workers.
My e mail to Senators Warner (D-VA) & Kaine (D-VA) and Rep Subramanyam (D- VA10th District)
As your constituent, I urge you to stop Donald Trump from harming students and parents by dismantling the Department of Education. By closing key offices and conducting mass layoffs, President Trump is trying to bypass Congress by effectively gutting programs enacted by Congress to protect students' education and civil liberties. You cannot let President Trump overstep his power or threaten crucial protections for students and their parents.
The Department of Education is responsible for ensuring that every child has equal access to education, regardless of race, sex, gender identity, or disability. I am deeply concerned about the impact that these cuts will have on all students, particularly on students with disabilities who would lose access to key federal programs and support. This will leave all students with less support – including for IDEA and Section 504 services, Title I funding for schools serving lower-income communities, and students needing college grants and loans.
Gutting this Department would be gutting our public education system – and leave students and educators alike with less support and fewer opportunities. Our nation is falling farther behind the rest of the industrial world because America fails to adequately fund the education of our children. Tell NOT MY pres musk, NOT MY pres drumpf / trump, NOT MY vp vance and the gop / greed over people -republican controlled congress the funding for the Dept of Education is available in the billionaire's tax cuts and you are redirecting it from there to here!
We can't afford to let the Trump administration gut the Department of Education. This is an overreach by the executive branch, and the impacts will be felt by nearly every child and parent unless Congress acts now to protect our students and the civil servants who fight for them.
Thank you,
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Donald Trump promised to dismantle the Department of Education – and he just gutted it. This is a direct attack on children and parents. This week, the Trump administration closed key offices and fired half of the Department of Education's workforce, putting millions of students' education and civil rights at risk. Congress can and must put a stop to this – and it is up to all of us to make sure they do: Send a message to your reps and tell them to protect the Department of Education now.
We knew that Trump was willing to use our very education system to push his own political agenda. Our legal team already filed a lawsuit in response to the president's threats to slash funding to schools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Now, Trump is blatantly attempting to bypass Congress to eliminate the government's commitment to ensuring every student – regardless of where they live, their family's income, or their race, sex, gender identity, or disability – has equal access to education. This reckless move will make it much harder for students to seek justice when their rights are violated – and also puts key federal grant programs at risk, including IDEA funding for students with disabilities, federal student loan programs, and Title I funding for schools serving low-income communities. We can't let the Trump administration destroy our public schools and attack our students like this, Tell your representatives now to stop Donald Trump from dismantling the Department of Education. – The ACLU Team |
Trump to sign order aimed at closing Education Department
The administration has already cut the agency’s workforce by nearly half. Totally shutting down the agency would require congressional action.
The order has been expected for weeks. Trump campaigned on a promise to close the department and slash its budget. Already, the agency has reduced its workforce by nearly half, mostly through layoffs, and worked to cancel dozens of grants and contracts.
During her Senate confirmation hearing, McMahon agreed with Democrats that only Congress, which created the department in 1979, can close the agency. But McMahon suggested moving some functions to other government agencies, a decision experts say would also require congressional approval. Closing the agency or transferring operations that are assigned to it by law would require 60 yes votes in the Senate, something considered highly unlikely given Republicans hold 53 seats.
Any effort to close the department or move its functions without congressional approval is expected to face legal challenges.
Trump has repeatedly cast the effort to reduce the federal footprint as returning education to the states. In fact, education has long been the responsibility of state and local governments, which provide about 90 percent of the funding and set most of the rules. The department does not dictate curriculum or have a hand in most school policies.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement that the order “will empower parents, states and communities to take control and improve outcomes for all students.” The order is expected to reference low test scores as justification for reducing the federal role. But administration officials have not explained how reducing the federal role in education will improve outcomes.
The Education Department administers federal grant programs, including the $18.4 billion Title I program that provides supplemental funding to high-poverty K-12 schools, as well as the $15.5 billion IDEA program that helps cover the cost of education for students with disabilities. And the department oversees the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program and sets rules for what colleges must do to participate.
A senior administration official said Wednesday that these programs, which make up the bulk of the Education Department’s budget and work, “will NOT be touched.” It’s not clear what that means or how the White House expects significant change without touching those programs. McMahon has said she does not support cutting federal spending on Title I or IDEA.
The fact sheet also accuses the Biden administration of using the Education Department to press an ideological agenda, such as promoting racial equity programs and barring schools from discrimination based on gender identity. But the Trump administration has done that in the opposite direction, with its own limits on how schools can address issues of race and gender.
The executive order also will repeat the administration’s directive that no program that advances diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or “gender ideology” receive Education Department funding.
USA Today first reported that the president plans to sign the order Thursday.
National Education Association President Becky Pringle said Trump’s order would gut programs that impact all students. “If successful, Trump’s continued actions will hurt all students by sending class sizes soaring, cutting job training programs, making higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, taking away special education services for students with disabilities, and gutting student civil rights protections,” she said.
Maegan Vazquez, Natalie Allison and Cat Zakrzewski contributed to this report.
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