President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s been a longtime target of conservatives.Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979. Republicans said they will introduce a bill to achieve that.The department, however, is not set to close completely. The White House said the department will retain certain critical functions.Trump said his administration will close the department beyond its 바카라 게임 웹사이트�core necessities," preserving its responsibilities for Title I funding for low-income schools, Pell grants and money for children with disabilities. The White House said earlier it would also continue to manage federal student loans.The president blamed the department for America바카라 게임 웹사이트�s lagging academic performance and said states will do a better job.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s doing us no good," he said at a White House ceremony.Already, Trump's Republican administration has been gutting the agency. Its workforce is being slashed in half, and there have been deep cuts to the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트�s academic progress.Advocates for public schools said eliminating the department would leave children behind in an American education system that is fundamentally unequal.바카라 게임 웹사이트�This is a dark day for the millions of American children who depend on federal funding for a quality education, including those in poor and rural communities with parents who voted for Trump,바카라 게임 웹사이트� NAACP President Derrick Johnson said.Democrats said the order will be fought in the courts and in Congress, and they urged Republicans to join them in opposition.Trump's order is 바카라 게임 웹사이트�dangerous and illegal바카라 게임 웹사이트� and will disproportionately hurt low-income students, students of color and those with disabilities, said Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.The department "was founded in part to guarantee the enforcement of students바카라 게임 웹사이트� civil rights,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Scott said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Champions of public school segregation objected, and campaigned for a return to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�states바카라 게임 웹사이트� rights.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�Supporters of Trump's vision for education welcomed the order.바카라 게임 웹사이트�No more bloated bureaucracy dictating what kids learn or stifling innovation with red tape,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, said on social media. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�States, communities, and parents can take the reins 바카라 게임 웹사이트� tailoring education to what actually works for their kids.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The White House has not spelled out formally which department functions could be handed off to other departments or eliminated altogether.The department sends billions of dollars a year to schools and oversees $1.6 trillion in federal student loans.Currently, much of the agency바카라 게임 웹사이트�s work revolves around managing money 바카라 게임 웹사이트� both its extensive student loan portfolio and a range of aid programs for colleges and school districts, like school meals and support for homeless students. The agency also is key in overseeing civil rights enforcement.States and districts already control local schools, including curriculum, but some conservatives have pushed to cut strings attached to federal money and provide it to states as 바카라 게임 웹사이트�block grants바카라 게임 웹사이트� to be used at their discretion. Block granting has raised questions about vital funding sources including Title I, the largest source of federal money to America바카라 게임 웹사이트�s K-12 schools. Families of children with disabilities have despaired over what could come of the federal department's work protecting their rights.Federal funding makes up a relatively small portion of public school budgets 바카라 게임 웹사이트� roughly 14%. The money often supports supplemental programs for vulnerable students, such as the McKinney-Vento program for homeless students or Title I for low-income schools.Colleges and universities are more reliant on money from Washington, through research grants along with federal financial aid that helps students pay their tuition.Republicans have talked about closing the Education Department for decades, saying it wastes taxpayer money and inserts the federal government into decisions that should fall to states and schools. The idea has gained popularity recently as conservative parents바카라 게임 웹사이트� groups demand more authority over their children바카라 게임 웹사이트�s schooling.In his platform, Trump promised to close the department 바카라 게임 웹사이트�and send it back to the states, where it belongs.바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump has cast the department as a hotbed of 바카라 게임 웹사이트�radicals, zealots and Marxists바카라 게임 웹사이트� who overextend their reach through guidance and regulation.Even as Trump moves to dismantle the department, he has leaned on it to promote elements of his agenda. He has used investigative powers of the Office for Civil Rights and the threat of withdrawing federal education money to target schools and colleges that run afoul of his orders on transgender athletes participating in women's sports, pro-Palestinian activism and diversity programs.Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, dismissed Trump's claim that he's returning education to the states. She said he is actually 바카라 게임 웹사이트�trying to exert ever more control over local schools and dictate what they can and cannot teach.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Even some of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s allies have questioned his power to close the agency without action from Congress, and there are doubts about its political popularity. The House considered an amendment to close the agency in 2023, but 60 Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it.During Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s first term, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sought to dramatically reduce the agency바카라 게임 웹사이트�s budget and asked Congress to bundle all K-12 funding into block grants that give states more flexibility in how they spend federal money. That move was rejected, with pushback from some Republicans.Leavitt is one of three administration officials named in a lawsuit by The Associated Press on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. The AP says the three are punishing the news agency for editorial decisions they oppose. The White House says the AP is not following an executive order to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.