The Education Department Was Created to Ensure Equal Access. Who Would Do That in Its Absence?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The biggest question for many is what happens to the billions of dollars sent to run public schools every year, such as Title I funding, which supports schools in communities with high concentrations of poverty.
53% : "Gutting the agency that is charged to ensure equal access to education for every child is only going to create an underclass of students," said Weadé James, senior director of K-12 education policy for the Center for American Progress, a think tank that advocates for racial equity policies and increased investment in public schools.
53% : Trump has said he wants to return all control of schools to states.
47% : Some have worried that without guardrails or federal oversight, states will use the money to advance their own priorities in ways that potentially entrench inequality.
43% : " If new Education Secretary Linda McMahon really does work herself "out of a job," as Trump has said he wants, the government will lose a bully pulpit to draw attention to the nation's challenges and evangelize solutions, said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank that advocates for more rigorous academic standards and accountability for public schools.
42% : If the funding is distributed to states as block grants, it's potentially a "way to defund public education," said Del Pilar.
26% : Well before Trump was sworn in for a second term, the system moved slowly, but it has now gotten even worse, said A. Kelly Neal, a special education attorney in Macon, Georgia.

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