00:00President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to shutter the Federal Department of
00:04Education and regulate all educational responsibility to individual states, a move that could impact
00:11crucial funding for K-12 schools and hamper civil rights enforcement.
00:15But experts warn it's unlikely the federal government will be able to be hands-off when
00:19it comes to education regulation, even if the department is closed.
00:23Trump has called the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter,
00:28an example of government oversight into the daily lives of Americans.
00:32He suggested it's been a poor investment for taxpayers, claiming the U.S. spends three
00:36times more money on education than any other nation, quote, and yet we are absolutely at
00:42the bottom.
00:43We're one of the worst.
00:44Billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump superdaughter who is expected to hold some kind of role
00:49in his next administration, on Monday called closing the Department of Education a quote
00:54good idea.
00:55While closing the Department of Education seems to be high on the priority list for
00:59Trump, his Agenda 47 proposals surrounding education also outline orders for schools
01:04that would no longer be the federal government's purview if all responsibilities were handed
01:08back to the states, including cutting funding for any school teaching critical race theory
01:13or quote transgender insanity and credentialing teachers who quote embrace patriotic values
01:19and support the American way of life.
01:22Ronald Reagan campaigned on getting rid of it in 1980, Bob Dole argued in favor of eliminating
01:27it during his 1996 Republican presidential campaign against Bill Clinton, and both Senators
01:32Ted Cruz and Rand Paul called for its elimination in 2015.
01:37For more on this story, check out Mary Whitfield Roloff's article in the link in the description.
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