Trump signs an executive order to dismantle the United States Public Education Department.

The President of the United States, Donald Trumpsigned this Thursday An executive order which requires the dismantling of Department of Education. The measure maintains a promise made by the 47th President of the United States. At the beginning of his election campaign for 2024. Trump made fun of the agency for considering him waste and contaminated by liberal ideology.

The order states that the secretary of education, Linda McMahon, “in the maximum appropriate measure and permitted by law, Will take all necessary measures to facilitate closure of the Department of Education and the Return Authority on Education to States and Local Communities. will keep some critical functions.

Trump said his administration will close the department beyond his “basic needs”, Preserving their responsibilities on Title I, a federal program that supports low -income students to receive high quality primary and secondary education, Financing, scholarships pel and money for Children with disabilities. The White House said previously on Thursday that the department will continue to manage federal loans for students, but the order seems to say differently.

Trump blames the Department for a low academic performance

According to Trump, the Department of Education has no staff Supervise your loan portfolio From 1.6 billion dollars (About 1,476 million euros) and “must return banking functions to an entity equipped to serve the students of the United States”. In a distinctive ceremony, Trump He blamed the Department for the Lower Academic Folding of the United States And he said states will do a better job. “It’s not going well,” he said.

The Trump administration has already dismantled the agency. Its model will be reduced by halfAnd there have been deep cuts in the civil rights office and the Institute of Education Sciences, which collect data on the academic progress of the nation.

McMahon said he will eliminate bureaucracy And it will allow states to decide what is best for their schools. But promised Continue with essential services And work with the States and the Congress “to guarantee a legal and orderly transition”.

“The Department of Justice already has a civil rights office and I think there is the opportunity to discuss with the attorney general Bondi the opportunity to locate there part of our work of civil rights“McMahon told journalists after the company.

“A dark day for millions of American children”

The measure was held by groups that have been asking for a long time. However, the defenders of the public school said that the elimination of the department would leave the children behind a fundamentally unequal educational system.

“This is A dark day for millions of American children This depends on the federal financing for quality education, including those of the poor and rural communities with parents who voted for Trump, “he said Derrick JohnsonPresident of Naacp.

The dismantling of the agency is most likely Impossible without a congress lawthat the department created in 1979. The Republicans declared that they will present legislation to reach it, while The Democrats They quickly aligned themselves To oppose the idea. The leader of minorities in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, described the order as “tyrannical power“And” one of the most destructive and devastating measures that Donald Trump has ever adopted “, promising to fight the order vehemently.