Does splitting the Department of Education eliminate the agency?

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00:00The Trump administration is putting its March executive order into action,

00:04moving to dismantle the Department of Education.

00:08This week we took the most decisive steps thus far to make good on this promise to you.

00:12We have linked six groundbreaking partnerships with other federal agencies

00:17to delegate education department programs that are redundant.

00:20What does this mean? Is the Department of Education no more? Let me explain.

00:25The Trump administration is divvying up the agency's different responsibilities

00:30and sharing them with the departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and the state.

00:36So technically Trump isn't eliminating it.

00:39Cause well, only Congress has the power to do that.

00:42And Congress hasn't given any indication that they support closing the Department of Education.

00:48Why does Trump want to shut down the department again?

00:50These interagency agreements to cut our own bureaucratic bloat

00:54are a key step in our efforts to shift educational authority

00:58from Washington DC to your state education agency.

01:02They say they want to give education responsibilities back to the states,

01:06but this move doesn't really do that.

01:09Kevin Wellner, a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder,

01:13told Straight Arrow News that this just moves staff around,

01:16but everyone's roles are still the same.

01:18Some experts told Straight Arrow News that the giving it back to the states message

01:22doesn't make much sense since states already run public schools.

01:28More on that and which roles are being spread across other departments at the website.

01:33Questions? Leave a comment.

01:35And with straight facts, I always give you my receipts.