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The Trump government has lowered almost half of the US training department’s workforce in order to convey the president’s obligation to abolish the agency.
The educational department said on Tuesday that it was on the “last mission” when it announced that it would relieve more than 1,300 employees.
The move comes as president Donald Trump Think about whether an executive regulation to close the department should be issued, although an act of the congress would be necessary to completely abolish this.
The education secretary Linda McMahon announced Fox News last week that she thought that Trump had “certainly intended” to sign an executive regulation that would lead to the closure of the department.
The department has long been a goal of conservatives that argue that education should be completely left in the control of individual states, determine the curricula and handle daily management of public or state, state, primary and secondary education systems.
Project 2025, the blueprint for a conservative presidency created by the right Heritage Foundation Think-Tank, demanded the department of the department.
Trump said that he wants “to lead the states of schools” and McMahon “get out of a job”.
“Today’s reduction in strength reflects the commitment of the Ministry of Education for Efficiency, accountability and the guarantee of resources where they are most important: for pupils, parents and teachers,” said McMahon on Tuesday. It called the move “a significant step to restore the size of the US formation system”.
The department will be transferred from a staff from 4,133 to around 2,183 employees. The cuts include 572 employees who have resigned voluntarily, including the federal admission of the Trump administration. The employees concerned will be given the administrative leave from March 21.
Educators have warned that Families with lower incomes would be the most difficult Made by the discharge of the department.
The American Federation of Teachers said that the decision would affect the 90 percent of the US children who attend state or public schools. The reduction of the workforce was to “throw the federal education programs into chaos across the country,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten.
“Ten million students who rely on financial help to go to college or pursue a trade stay in the floating. States and districts will be forced to navigate without the support of financing crises and to violate millions of students with disabilities and students in poverty, ”she added.
The educational department supervises student loans for the university and special university grants for students with low incomes known as Pell Grants. There is also money for individual school districts to finance basic and secondary school formation for children with low incomes and special needs.
The agency said that it would continue to provide “all legal programs that fall under the responsibility of the agency, including formula financing, student loans, pell subsidies, financing of students with special needs and competitive scholarships”.
