An issue that has always been high priority for politics is the education system and how it’s run. Even when there are no specific problems in the system, presidents, senators, and governors alike try to help as much as they can to make education better for America’s future best minds and interests.
As of recently, President Donald Trump called for the dismantlement of the Department of Education in an executive order. What does it mean? Will it affect the students or the teachers? Here are the hardcore facts about what would happen if Trump’s plans succeeded.
Trump believes the department is at fault for the recent problems with education and that the state governments would do a better job at picking curriculum, funding schools, etc. However, there are many problems with this decision, especially since the belief that the Department of Education sets school curriculum is false; it is the state’s decision on what they teach.
But giving all responsibilities to the state might be an unwise decision, because the ED is in charge of a small portion of federal funds for the school and making sure all children are able to attend school. However, taking the Department away could hinder children from poorer or restrictive backgrounds and unable to attend school without financial help. Texas state law says that children from the ages of six to eighteen must attend school, so it could get the parents or child in trouble with the law and be detrimental to the child’s education.
However, getting rid of the Department of Education would not give up student loans to the public, contrary to popular belief, it would only transfer to a different federal department. But it may loosen loan qualifications. Another plus of dismantlement could be better testing strategies and better curriculum.
Dismantling the Department of Education has outcomes that we cannot predict whether positive or negative, but it can be beneficial to understand what could happen and why.