According to multiple media reports, president Donald Trump is finalizing plans to dismantle and defund the Department of Education. This comes after Texas congressman Chip Roy also called for it's closure.
"Yes, this is fantastic news" said education expert, Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Culture Project, "President Trump won the parent vote by 9 points. The GOP has basically emerged as the parents party."
So if the D.O.E. is shut down, how would that work? And what would happen?
"The states and the individual districts would be able to spend that money on education as they see fit" DeAngelis told KTRH, "The main benefit is that you'd have more local control over education, and you'd have less wasteful spending on useless bureaucrats in D.C. thousands of miles away who don't know a dang thing about your education system within your state."
The Department would go away, but not the federal money.
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