US President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the aim of abolishing the federal education department in the presence of students and teachers on Thursday, 20 March. This was Trump’s election promise, which has been fulfilled. This order will leave the school policy almost completely in the hands of states and local boards. Trump’s decision has worried the supporters of Liberal Education.
In the signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Trump said that this order will start ‘eliminating the department’. The department needs an Act of the Congress to completely shut down and Trump does not have votes for this.
Donald Trump said, “We are going to return education, very easily, to the states where it is.”
This order of President Trump came after the announcement made by the department last week, which said that about half of the employees from the department would be fired. The purpose of this decision is to give a new shape to the American government and eliminate the federal bureaucracy.
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What is the reason behind Trump’s decision?
Donald Trump has been continuously insisting on this, not alone. In January itself, Trump alleged that schools are making children radical and anti-American. Even they keep the parents away from it, so that they do not know the changes happening in their own children.
For the last several years, there have been many disputes in school-colleges. Like one section supports LGBTQ+, the other opposed it. Many Conservatives tried to ban such books on gender. Democrats were clashed in reverse about this.