The head of the second largest trade union in the country of the country warned that there could be legal complications and privacy risks if President Donald Trump’s government is successful in dismantling The Ministry of Education.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Trump officials are considering executive actions to eliminate the department as part of the task of the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce the federal government.
According to the reportTrump advisers debate an executive order that “all functions of the agency that are not explicitly written in status would conclude whether certain functions would move to other departments,” and ask for a legislative proposal to completely abolish the Department.
During a appearance on CNN on Tuesday, President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, said Trump was illegal, and she expressed concern about privacy risks involved in the revision of the federal agency.
Randi Weingarten, the boss of a National Teachers Union, warned of President Trump’s movement to eliminate the educational department. (Afthq YouTube channel)
“The move is not legal,” Weingarten told host Kate Bolduan. “There are many things about the Ministry of Education that are in the articles of association,” she said about funds that go from the department to low -income families, students with disabilities, English as second language students and to work with study programs.
“You are talking about millions of children. And what that department really does is that it actually ensures that the money goes out and it is not stolen. It is actually used for the intended purposes. These are the most important functions of the Department of Education, “she argued.
Weingarten denied the agency that was treated in schools, but served as more of an office for financial help.
The Labor leader claimed that there should be more federal control over education and said there should be a federal policy to help schools compete with China.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, weighed on reports that President Donald Trump is taking action to eliminate the education department. (CNN/Screenshot)
She suggested that vocational training in schools could be a way to help students and create more American jobs.
“We need federal policy that actually has children, boys, have more options in high school to do things like this, become technicians and welders and things like that. That is what the federal Ministry of Education should do. That. Type of actually growing American jobs. “
Weingarten also argued that eliminating the educational department could cause privacy risks.
“Think of both in terms of Treasury and in terms of education, the amount of personal, private financial information that that department has, just as Treasury has all the information about social security, all information about taxes. In the Ministry of Education, it has She said so much personal information.
“Nobody has chosen Donald Trump or Elon Musk to take their private information,” warned Weingarten.
Trump has written a dei -government sentence. The school policy should be the following
President Trump promised the campaign track to eliminate the education department and bring the power back to the United States. (Getty Images)
The research of the educational department comes as A new report Of the watchdog organization parents who defend education, the federal department finds more than $ 200 million awarded to 48 universities to inject diversity, equity and inclusion content into counseling courses since 2021.
The latest data from the Education Department also show that the reading skills of American students have continued to fall since the COVID-19 Pandemie.
The 2024 Nations Report Card revealed that Leesscores fell two points for students of the fourth and eighth class. Mathematics scores remained almost unchanged for eighth classes and raised two points for fourth rankers, which are still three points lower than the average score in 2019 for mathematics of the fourth grade.
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“Today’s NAEP results reveal a heartbreaking reality for American students and confirm our worst fears: not only most students did not recover from pandemically related learning loss, but those students who were most supported and needed the most support are even further fallen behind, “the Ministry of Education said in a statement. “Despite the billions of dollars that the federal government invests annually in K-12 education, and the approximately $ 190 billion in federal pandemic funds, our education system will continue to fail throughout the country.”
The Nation 2024 report showed that Leesscores fell two points for students of the fourth and eighth class. (Istock)
Weingarten has previously argued that AFT -members are indifferent to the prospect of the Ministry of Education that is being abolished.
During the day An appearance on MSNBC In November she said: “My members don’t really care if they have a bureaucracy at the Ministry of Education or not. In fact, Shanker and the rear in the 1970s were against the founding. We thought it should stay inside HEW (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) because of the entire child.
Weingarten made in 2019 More than half a million dollars Per year in her work, according to Aft’s Internal Revenue Service form 990. Her salary was more than nine times the average salary of teachers in the US
