Education Department prepares to lay off roughly half its staff

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Meanwhile, other groups -- including Project 2025, which had pushed for eliminating the entire Education Department -- have advocated for ending certain funding in phases or for converting most of the funding the department gives to states for K-12 programs into block grants, a form of funding that comes with fewer and less onerous rules and federal oversight.
38% : For example, some proposals by conservative activists have called for moving federal student loan programs to the Treasury Department -- Republican-sponsored bills filed in January by Reps. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, and David Rouzer, of North Carolina, that seek to eliminate the agency proposed doing just that -- and moving civil rights enforcement issues in public schools to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
24% : (Trump cannot unilaterally get rid of a federal agency without congressional approval.)

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