“One thing I will do very soon in the Administration is close he Department of Education in Washington, DC,” he warned Donald Trump in a video of his campaign. The now president-elect It said in the advertisement that the officials public who work in the department “they hate children“and blamed the schools for”indoctrinate children with inappropriate racial, sexual and political material“, in reference to inclusive civic education content. Trump will return to can with the branch legislation in favorbut some old guard Republicans have already said that they will not give him carte blanche, so the question is how far he can go with his electoral promise.
The best known proposal is that of ban books. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the attempt to shape the mandatory resumebut it is also a half-truth: The Executive cannot prohibit the sale of certain securities. What you can do is remove them from required reading lists and the libraries of schools and institutes. Novels like ‘1984’, by George Orwell; ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, by Margaret Atwood, or ‘The diary of Ana Frank‘they have already begun to remove from school shelves from some of the most conservative districts. Other forms of censorship include remove chapters from American historysuch as those referring to the slaveryin response to a movement led by white parents who say that such content they make their white children feel guilty.
‘Anti-woke’ crusade
The Trump’s crusade against education part of the war declared against what he calls movement ‘woke‘ (literally, ‘the awakened’ in English, in reference derogatory to the social sector more progressive), added to the belief that a budget cut and staff of the public administration will more efficient to the system. To this end, it has recruited two billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. But to close a department (equivalent to a ministry in Spain) you will need Congress (which points to a Republican victory but the count is still continuing) and the Senate, where there is a Republican majority of 53 seats compared to 47 Democrats.
However, you will need a supermajority of 60 out of 100 to carry out such a structural measure. The complicity of the Democrats it is unlikely; It is even doubtful that all Republicans are in favor. So the question is, will they settle for ‘no’ for an answer? Probably not. But there are other substantial reforms that they could undertake alone.
The strategy from Trump here it is similar to that of abortion: He does not say that he wants to prohibit it, but that the decision should be left in the hands of the stateswhich, in factimplies its prohibition in half the country. In education, only 10% of the budget is managed at the federal level. Still, they are some 60 billion dollars a year allocated to integration of students in a situation of poverty and with disability, and manages student loans worth 1.6 trillion dollars. The abolition of the department would leave these programs on the air.
Censorship of slavery and anti-trans
Meanwhile, Trump will put in charge of this department that he wants to close Linda McMahon, former executive of the multimillion-dollar wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainmentwho chairs a pro-Trump fundraising committee and has barely any experience in education at the local level. Trump celebrated in a statement that McMahon is going to advance two main objectives which he calls the parents’ right ‘to know’ (relating to censoring the resume) and the “universal school choice“, that would give all taxpayers the option of divert your taxes intended for the public school in your district and direct it instead to, for example, a religious schooleven in another part of the state.
“Getting boys out of women’s sports“has been another mantra of the Trump campaign, declaring the war on trans boys and girls, misrepresenting las laws of inclusion approved under the Biden Administration, which simply extended the declaration of civil rights to explain the prohibition of discriminate for reasons of gender in schools. This measure could be easily reversed by Trump.
It also seems that it will be the end of the program Biden to condone the debt of the loans university students. In 2023, when the Supreme Court made Biden stop this programTrump said it would have been “very, very unfair for the millions and millions of people who They have paid their debt with hard work“, and it seems clear that he will revoke it regardless of whether the Department of Education continues to exist.
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