Key funding for SC schools in place (for now) as US education department to start shutting down

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : South Carolina's state government and local school districts always have controlled public schools, including setting curriculum and providing most of the funding.
55% : But education department funding tied to poverty and student disabilities provides tens of millions of dollars to districts each year, and comes with regulatory strings attached, The Post and Courier has previously reported.
51% : " "The problem with 'returning education to the states' should be obvious to anyone who remembers South Carolina schools before federal intervention," he said in a statement.
48% : "Core necessities" such as Title I funding for low-income schools, money for students with disabilities and Pell grants for low-income students would be "fully preserved" in the hollowed department while its other work is to be closed and moved to other agencies, Trump said.
48% : Other transfers of power will include moving the federal government's student aid portfolio to the Small Business Administration and moving unspecified work about nutrition and "special needs" to the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump told reporters March 21 in the Oval Office.
45% : But some worry that a lack of federal oversight could lead to discrimination, compromise equal access to educational opportunities and destabilize funding procedures.
43% : The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is suing Weaver and a pair of Lexington County school districts over the constitutionality of a budget provision barring public schools from teaching certain ideas about race, similarly described the order as denying students a resource for combating discrimination and ensuring equal access to educational opportunities.
34% : Losing federal oversight would have an oversized impact on the state's most vulnerable students, said South Carolina ACLU spokesman Paul Bowers, who described closing the department as an attempt to return schools to the "bad old days.

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