President elect Donald Trump pledge to shutdown the Department of Education while he was campaigning
Washington, D.C. – Now that the nation’s 45th president has been reselected to serve again as the 47th president of the United States. What will be the first thing on Trump’s presidential agenda?
While campaigning Trump did mention that he wanted to get rid of the Department of Education. While at a rally in Wisconsin during September, Trump has been quoted by CNN as saying, “We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing.”
Trump is unable to just shutdown the Department of Education on his own. It is much more complicated than what he is communicating for it to be. In order for him to do so, he would need full cooperation by Congress, and he is unlikely to receive such support.
The Department of Education has been ranked by U.S. News & World Reports as 12th in their listing of the Most Well-Developed Public Education Systems (3rd in best overall countries). In 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education as promised to educators during this campaign for president.