Donald Trump reduce labor in the US Education Department

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The Trump administration has reduced almost half the workforce of the US education department, a step towards the promise of the President to cancel the agency.

The Department of Education said that it was a “final mission” on Tuesday as it announced that it would dismiss more than 1300 workers.

This step comes as president Donald Trump Consider whether the executive order should be issued to close the department, although it will be necessary to completely cancel its act.

Linda Minister Linda McMahon told Fox News last week that Trump “certainly intends to sign an” executive order that will lead to the closure of the department.

The Department has long been the goal of the conservatives, claiming that education should be completely left in control of individual states that set curriculum and process the daily management of the country or the state -owned primary and secondary education.

The project of 2025, the basis for the conservative presidency drawn up in the right section “Heritage Fund”, called for the elimination of the Department.

Trump said he wants “states to go to schools” and McMuhon “pulled himself out of work.”

“Today’s decline in force reflects the department of education to efficiency, accountability and ensuring that resources are directed where they are most important: students, parents and teachers,” McMahon said on Tuesday. She called this step “a significant step towards restoring the greatness of the US education system”.

The department will leave the staff 4133 to 2183 employees. The reduction includes 572 workers who voluntarily resigned, including through federal ransoms of Trump administration. The victims will be put on an administrative vacation starting on March 21.

Teachers warned this Families with a smaller level of income would be difficult suffered the deprivation of the department.

The US Teachers Federation stated that the decision would affect 90 percent of children attending state or public schools. Labor reduction was “throwing federal educational programs into chaos across the country,” said AFT President Randy Weingar.

“Ten million students who are counting on financial assistance to go to college or continue trade will be left in a suspended state. States and districts will be forced to move with financing crises without federal support, harming millions with disabilities and students living in poverty,” she added.

The Education Department controls student loans for the university as well as special higher education grants for low -income students known as Grants Pell. It also provides money to separate school district to finance primary and secondary education for low -income and special needs.

The agency stated that it would still “implement all the statutory programs that fall into account the agency, including the financing of formulas, student loans, Pell grants, financing for special needs and competitive grants.”