Is It Possible for Trump to Shut the Department of Education?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The process would theoretically take 10 years, and could lead to vast decreases in funding for public education.
50% : While the agency's involvement in K-12 issues has often been in the spotlight politically, by far the Department of Education's biggest expenditure is on higher education.
48% : Under President Biden, the Department of Education canceled more than $167 billion in student debt for 4.75 million borrowers, about 10 percent of those who hold a federal student loan.
48% : They believed all of the issues affecting children -- health care, nutrition, cash welfare and education -- should be handled by a single federal agency, then known as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
47% : Gareth Davies, a historian who has written about the founding of the Department of Education, said the revival of conservative opposition to the agency shows "just how far the G.O.P. has moved in the past two decades, from compassionate conservatism to culture wars."While the idea may play well to the conservative activist base, he wrote in an email, "it gives Democrats opportunities to say that the G.O.P. is bashing teachers and public schools.

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