Despite President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education (ED), he is currently using government agencies to host schools promoting anti-Semitism, gender ideology, equity, diversity and inclusion (DEI). This raises new questions that need to be addressed. How can the administration hold schools accountable when the department no longer exists?
Trump administration through Ed Cut in recent weeks $400 A million Federal funding from Columbia University, including anti-Semitism cases Anti-Israel Camp 2024.
Ed follows boot investigation He has participated in over 50 universities to use “racial preferences and stereotypes in educational programs and activities” and to “being awarded an unacceptable racial-based scholarship.” The department is evident in that these actions “may lead to losses of federal funds.”
There are concerns that the Trump administration could lose grip on this authority if the department is removed or significantly reduced. While this is a legitimate concern, the administration still has the power to hold bad actors accountable.
Ed was relatively young and was created in 1980 only after then President Jimmy Carter. signature Law to the law Law Creating an agency. Prior to that, there was another Education Bureau from 1867 until that point.
This office was originally Provided by Only three people will initially serve as staff with the aim of “providing educational information to state and local education authorities.” this It’s still The purpose of the office until 1965 – then President Lyndon B. Johnson signature Elementary and secondary education are based on law.
This new law It’s increased The role of the federal government in education while reducing local control. The federal government accounts for 8% of public school budgets. Johnson essentially paved the way for what will become Ed today by expanding the role of the federal government in the education system.
Most of the first 70 years, the Department of Education It existed Within internal divisions (doi). In 1939, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt It moved The Education Bureau to the Federal Security Agency, a short-lived government agency that dissolved in 1953.
After the disbandment of the Federal Security Agency, then President Dwight D. Eisenhower Created What is it now? It’s known As the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education has moved to this new institution. The department handled education issues until 1980 when ED was created.
Functions such as providing federal funding to American schools can be given to the DOI or HHS, or even the Treasury Department, as Trump works to disband and give more power to the state. All these options will be a great alternative to support the reduced role of the federal government in education.
In fact, disbanding ED should not affect school responsibility. The administration must move through certain offices that handle funds and continue business as usual in this respect.
Take a look at the University of California (UC) System, for example. I had roughly at UC 300,000 Students now and $50.1 billion in FundsGrade 2022-2023. Data from 2024 revealed that nearly $16 billion in university funding came from the federal government.
Each campus within the UC Consuming resources Staff and race-based “advisory committee” and quarantine Affinity Group For employees. I also have UC policy To increase “racial diversity,” it requires “non-binary” as gender and “clear and continuous prioritization of diversity by the Prime Minister, Dean and other administrators.”
As long as UC funds DEI and gender ideology, the university system certainly doesn’t require federal funding. Whether the responsibility for education funding belongs to the DOI, HHS, or the Ministry of Finance, the administration has the same power as cutting UC funding until the university chooses to use its resources wisely.
Ed did not exist until 1980, but education authority remained under other jurisdictions up until that point. Dissolution of ED simply eliminates waste that would not have existed in the first place. Offices that ensure that the executive department holds bad actors accountable can easily be folded to other agencies. Trump can continue to clean our country’s education system without stumbling, when EDs are eliminated.
Casey Ryan is an educational advocate author and investigative reporter for parents.
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