‘We’re not prepared’: States brace for Trump’s plans to dismantle the Education Department
Trump has said he wants to leave school policy to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that would look like.
By Adam Edelman and Tyler Kingkade
President Donald Trump has set his sights on abolishing the U.S. Education Department and has said he’d prefer to put education policy in the hands of the states.
But that may not be so simple, with state officials and lawmakers saying they’re wildly unprepared for such a huge undertaking.
NBC News reported this month that the White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the agency, though the details of how that would work remain unclear. Trump cannot unilaterally get rid of a federal agency without congressional approval, and his nominee for education secretary, Linda McMahon, agreed at her recent Senate confirmation hearing that they hope to present a plan that Congress will support…