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US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says the administration will work with the US Congress to abolish the department.
The United States Ministry of Education has announced that it will release almost half of its employees when President Donald Trump is moving to fulfill his promise of a campaign to dismantle the agency.
The department said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce to approximately 2183 employees, launching staff on administrative leave as of March 21.
The department said it would continue to provide “all legal programs” falling under its competence, including student loans and funding for students with special needs.
The abbreviations follow such dismissal circles, undertaken as part of the Elon Musk Government, led by the Ministry of Elon, to optimize the federal bureaucracy.
“Today's reduction of power reflects the commitment of the Ministry of Education to Efficiency, Accountability and Guarantee that resources are aimed at being the most important: to students, parents and teachers,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
“I appreciate the work of the initiate civil servants and their contribution to the department. This is a significant step towards restoring the greatness of the United States education system. “
In an interview with Fox News later on Tuesday, McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, confirmed that the cuts are a step towards removing the department.
“It's actually because it was the president's term,” she said.
“Its directive to me is obviously to close the Ministry of Education, which we know we will have to work with Congress to achieve this.”
McMahon said that the cuts are striving for a “bureaucratic swelling” and that “programs facing external objects” would be preserved as gratuitous funds.
The Trump campaign of the campaign to remove the education department, which he claims to have been infiltrated by “radicals, zealous and Marxists” and has submitted responsibility for the education of individual countries and local schools.
On a exchange with reporters last month, the US President said he had told McMahon that he wanted her to “let go.”
Education in the United States is already provided by countries and local communities, with the federal government providing only about 8 percent of total funding for primary and secondary education.
Established in 1979 by the US Congress and former President Jimmy Carter, the main functions of the Ministry of Education include the provision of financial assistance to schools, the supervision of student loan programs and the application of civil rights protection.
Republicans confronted the department of its establishment, arguing that educational policy should be processed at state and local level.
Former US President Ronald Reagan repeatedly calls for the dismantling of the department, but ultimately failed to win congress support before leaving office in 1989.
The National Education Association, the largest teaching union in the United States, has condemned this move to the Trump administration, accusing it of taking a “destructive ball” of about 50 million students.
“The real victims will be our most vulnerable students,” said President of the National Education Association Becky Pringle.
“The gutting of the Ministry of Education will send sizes to classes, will reduce job training programs, make higher education more expensive and inaccessible to middle-class families, will take special educational services for students with disabilities and protection of the civil rights of students.”
