What is half of 4,133? That is how many employees will be eliminated at the Department of Education.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that this will help eliminate “bureaucratic bloat.”
“The Department of Education will continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency’s purview, including formula funding, student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students, and competitive grantmaking,” the agency said.
Before you get poetic about education, recall that the DOE does not have the federal authority to instate education standards and has never resulted in high standards in the first place. President Trump wants education run by the states, which is what the Constitution calls for too. See our piece on the Department of Education and its inception.
