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Former President Donald Trump called for the abolition of the US Department of Education on Saturday.
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He spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas on Saturday.
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A video shows the call for the division’s abolition being met with enthusiastic applause.
Former President Donald Trump called for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education in his Saturday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Trump told the audience that there was a need to ban the teaching of “inappropriate racial, sexual and political material” to American schoolchildren.
“If federal bureaucrats are to pursue this radicalism, they should abolish the Ministry of Education,” he continued.
This portion of the speech, the video show, appeared to receive enthusiastic applause.
Last month, former education secretary Betsy DeVos, who served as secretary of education in the Trump administration, told a conservative education summit that the Department of Education, which she once led for four years, should be abolished.
“Personally, I don’t think the Ministry of Education should exist,” DeVos said at the Moms for Liberty summit. Around Florida Phoenix.
DeVos argued that federal departments should be abolished in favor of state and local commissions to determine education policy. According to Florida Phoenix, this was also met with cheers.
In fact, calls for the abolition of federal agencies have preceded DeVos.Rep. Thomas Massey endorsed last year by Lauren Boebert, Matt Gates and Andy Biggs submitted a bill Abolish the U.S. Department of Education.
Massey said in February 2021, “No unelected bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. should be in charge of the intellectual and moral development of our children.
Introduced by Massey Almost the same bill as in 2017. Even President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s said he wanted it closed.
according to Chicago Tribune, Republicans have long wanted to get rid of the Department of Education because they believe that education policy lies within the jurisdiction of states and communities, not the federal government.
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