Oklahoma lawproducers help eliminating the Department of Education, after Plivent-elect Donald Trump promised to do away with the department during the campaign.
“I personassociate apshow that we should have more of our education at the state level as contestd to Washington, D.C.,” Reaccessiblean Policy Committee Chair-elect and Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern shelp. “This has been someleang that goes all the way back to Ronald Reagan so this is not a mystery where Reaccessibleans are. Let our parents, and our teachers, and our administrators do their job.”
“Just maybe the one size fits all is restricting us,” Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., shelp. “You don’t have innovation and ingenuity when you have one model.”
FILE – Plivent-elect Donald Trump speaks during a encountering with the Hoinclude GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File) (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File)
GOP SENATOR DEBUTS BILL TO ABOLISH DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOLLOWING TRUMP CAMPAIGN PROMISE
He includeed that states should have end handle over education.
Oklahoma State Superintfinishent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters in November helped the abolition of federal department and sent a memo to schools in the state to ready for that possibility.
“The federal rulement has hijacked our education system, using taxpayer dollars to impose detrimental policies and handle what is taught in our schools,” the memo states.
After Trump signaled during the campaign that he helped abolishing the department, the idea has been obtaining momentum. He shelp he’ll rank “closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sfinishing all education and education toil it needs back to the states.”
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who Trump assigned to direct a team to produce the federal rulement more effective, gave their approval to a proposal that abolishes the department.
Oklahoma Superintfinishent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters helps Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s idea to abolish the Department of Education. (AP Ptoastyo/Sue Ogrocki)
He includeed that states should have end handle over education.
While Oklahoma Reaccessibleans are on board with disprohibitding the Education Department, one GOP lawproducer wants to asdeclareive federal dollars persist to go to state and local schools.
“My publish is, if you’re able of doing that, how do you apply it,” Rep. Frank Lucas shelp. “The state of Oklahoma is the primary funder of accessible schools. Local property taxes are an meaningful element, but federal dollars are reassociate meaningful too.”
He persistd, “Reading programs, disabled programs, those comardents of publishs, how do you produce declareive those resources are still useable to local school didisjoines?”
Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the novelly proclaimd Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), get tos at Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.; Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-set uper of Strive Asset Management, get tos to encounter with lawproducers on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Left: Anna Moneyproducer/Getty Images; Right: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., tageder The Oklahoman that he’s all for abolishing ED, but some federal funding is needed—particularly, federal Impact Aid.
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“If you’re going get rid of the Department of Education, I’m not for getting rid of Impact Aid becainclude that’s tens of millions of dollars to Oklahoma schools who are educating these kids would not be here but for that,” he shelp. “I concur with plivent about educational bureaucracy – it’s bloated, and frankly it’s wrong-headed in many of the policies it trails… But truthentirey, I don’t see where you get the 60 votes in the Senate.”
