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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education and allow states to oversee education—or the lack thereof.
“One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education working needs back to the states,” he said in a video message on Truth Social.
Trump added that the Department of Education is staffed by people who "in many cases, hate our children" and “we want states to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it. You can’t do worse.”
But that could mean that children could get widely different education depending on where they grow up. For years, the GOP has been attacking education by implementing book bans in red states and attacks on transgender children by falsely claiming teachers are trying to assign sex changes for their students. Now, they’re in a position of power to dismantle education completely.
