Trump sends education policies and power back to states

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Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump on March 20 signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the Department of Education, leaving school policy almost entirely in the hands of states and local boards.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education, by far, than any other

00:29country, and spends, likewise, by far, more money per pupil than any country, and it's

00:37not even close.

00:38But yet, we rank near the bottom of the list in terms of success.

00:43Despite these breathtaking failures, the Department's discretionary budget has exploded by 600 percent

00:50in a very short period of time, and it employs bureaucrats in buildings all over Washington,

00:56D.C.

00:57As a former real estate person, I will tell you, I ride through the streets of Washington

01:01and it says, Department of Education, Department of Education.

01:06I said, how do you fill those buildings?

01:08It's crazy what's happened over the years.

01:11But we're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,

01:17and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense

01:22thing to do, and it's going to work.

01:24Absolutely, it's going to work, but beyond these core necessities, my administration

01:29will take all lawful steps to shut down the department.

01:33We're going to shut it down, and shut it down as quickly as possible.

01:36It's doing us no good.

01:37We want to return our students to the states where just some of the governors here are

01:42so happy about this.

01:44They want education to come back to them, to come back to the states, and they're going

01:48to do a phenomenal job.

01:50We're going to love and cherish our teachers, along with our children, and they're going

01:54to work with the parents, and they're going to work with everybody else, and it's going

01:57to be an amazing thing to watch, and it's really going to be something special.

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