The proposal for President Trump’s budget would shrink the training department, which called on Congress to eliminate, reducing its funding by $ 15 % or $ 12 billion.
The most important part of this reduction, about $ 4.5 billion, will come from K-12 schools. The administration said this reduction would come from a plan to provide “rational, flexible funding in states” and relieves the federal government for the responsibility of managing money and imposing compliance. These cuts will not affect the financing of title I for low -income schools, a spokesman for the Department of Education said.
Mr Trump will save $ 1.6 billion, reducing programs aimed at supporting low -income students and preparing them for the college. The administration said these programs, known to Trio and Great Up, were “a relic of the past” because access to college was not “the obstacle that was for limited media students”.
Other significant cuts come from a reduction in about $ 1 billion from the Federal Labor Study programs. $ 910 million from a program for students with great financial need. $ 890 million from services to help immigrant students become capable English speakers. $ 729 million from adult education services. and $ 315 million from preschool growth grants.
The budget proposal will also reduce $ 64 million in funding for Howard University, the only federally chartered historical black college and the University of the Nation.
A corner of the education budget that Trump’s administration would like is charter schools. The budget proposal will increase federal support for new charter schools by $ 60 million or about $ 8.3 %.
Randi Weingarten, president of the US Federation of Teachers, said the proposal “cuts many of what helps the poor, working class and middle class Americans move forward”.
“Our concern when the president began to disassemble the Ministry of Education was not bureaucracy, but funding,” Ms Weingarten said. “And now we know. They’re really shurchanging kids. He would make the K-12 programs by $ 5.4 billion.
Linda McMahon, secretary of education, said that the budget proposal reflected her mandate to “serve as the final secretary of education”. The closure of the Department of Education would require approval by Congress, which opposes such a move.
“President Trump’s proposed budget puts students and parents over bureaucracy,” Ms McMahon said in a statement. “The federal government has invested trillions of dollars of taxpayers in an educational system that does not lead to improved student results.
