Abbott rents the Trump effort to eliminate the education department

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Washington Governor Greg Abbott congratulated President Donald Trumps to eliminate the United States Ministry of Education on Thursday, moving the concerns that this decision would create uncertainty for funding and civil rights protections in public education.

It is the madness that we had this massive bureaucracy at the Ministry of Education where we spent countless dollars of American money and does not obtain results for this, said Abbott in an executive decree at the White House. We will get much better results by asking this money to go directly to states, where states know much better how to appropriate this money to give better results.

The executive decree orders that the Secretary of Education takes all legal means to close the ministry. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that she considerably reduces the extent of the education department but does not fully eliminate her. The congress has the power to create and eliminate federal agencies, and the congress allocates funds paid by the ministry.

Texas is a great beneficiary of federal funding for education. The Department of Education supervised more than $ 12 billion in Texas in the year 2023, not to mention the funds granted on a competitive basis.

Trump has promised not to stop funding for critical programs that students and educators use, such as Pell subsidies and student loans. He proposed to move these programs under different agencies.

Opponents of this decision expressed their concern about what this is a blow for the application of civil rights of federal governments. The ministry is the main federal agency for the protection of civil rights in public education, and it is not clear which agency will supervise these efforts in the future.

It is perfectly logical for Governor Greg Abbott to be on the spot for the dismantling of the Ministry of Education, said Zeph Capo, president of the Texas Union of Texas American Federation of Teachers, in a press release. It was the only government entity which is responsible for guaranteeing the rights of parents and students to free and fair education.

Democrats have also expressed their concern about the imprecision of the decree, which does not underline what other agencies would take care of the responsibilities of the Department of Education, including the financing flows that Trump has promised to protect.

The presidents' announcement is filled with uncertainty about how critical programs will be implemented, said US representative Vicente Gonzalez, D-MCALLEN, in a statement. Last year, I helped obtain $ 163 million in title I funds for public schools in the 34th Congress district in Texas. This money is hiring teachers, helping schools buy supplies and technologies to improve learning, financial training for teachers and parents, and much more. The administration has no plan on how these funds will continue to exist.

But Abbott said he was convinced that these programs would continue as part of a new umbrella of the federal government, although it is not clear that would be. He also underlined that he planned to increase the financing of public schools in this legislative session, especially for students with disabilities and the increases in the remuneration of teachers of up to $ 5,500 or $ 10,000 for teachers in rural schools.

Leaving this session, we will provide more funding than ever for public schools in the history of the State of Texas, said Abbott.

Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick and the Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton were also at the signature ceremony of the executive order on Thursday.

The elimination of the department has been a priority of law for years, and Trump has repeatedly promised to do so during the campaign.

Several prosecutors general of the Democratic State proactively continued the Trump administration earlier this month during its measures to dismiss hundreds of staff members of the education department. The general prosecutors claim that the congress has the power to appropriate funds and set up or dismantle agencies.

Education is at the center of the abbots agenda this legislative session. He expressed the confidence that the legislation aimed at creating good educational savings accounts for private and parish schools will pass this year. The legislation did not succeed in the last session, several rural Republicans joining the Democrats to vote it, citing concerns that this would reduce the financing of public schools. Abbott denies that the financing of public schools will drop.

Although the effort is advanced at the level of the state, several federal actors have thrown their support. Senator Ted Cruz has been a vocal supporter of education savings accounts, also presenting legislation similar to the congress and approving republican candidates who support the measure in recent years. Trump and Elon Musk expressed their support for Texas's law.

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