McMahon: Gutting Education Department will eliminate 'red tape' on state funding [View all]
Source: Scripps News
Posted 2:09 PM, Mar 23, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is elaborating more on what the future of the Department of Education will look like as she is tasked with dismantling the same agency she now oversees.
Speaking Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," McMahon said gutting the department will not necessarily mean defunding "outward facing programs." Instead, she said the effort is more focused on increasing efficiency by shifting oversight of those programs to other government agencies and eliminating "a lot of strings attached" regarding how states are able to spend federal funds.
"Governors and state superintendents of education have said, 'look, if we have the funding coming in which allows us to be more creative, how can we spend that?'" said McMahon. "The president believes as I do that the best education is that that's closest to the students."
McMahon went on to use Louisiana as an example, saying the state has seen the greatest improvement to student test scores because of programs at the local level. "Those are programs that were put in place by the governors, by the superintendent of education — not having anything to do with the Department of Education and Washington," she stated. "So what we need to do is make sure that the funding has a clear path, the funding continues, but that the states are allowed to spend the money where they need to spend it."
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/mcmahon-gutting-education-department-will-eliminate-red-tape-on-state-funding
We will go back to the days when only the "privileged" had "education". The urban schools would definitely get ZERO.
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