President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education.On the campaign trail, he repeatedly pointed to the agency as a symbol of federal overreach into the everyday lives of American families.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I say it all the time, I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said in September during a rally in Wisconsin.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America바카라 게임 웹사이트�s youth with all sorts of things that you don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t want to have our youth hearing,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump said.In 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from Georgia, signed legislation making the Department of Education a Cabinet-level agency 바카라 게임 웹사이트� fulfilling a campaign pledge he made to one of the country바카라 게임 웹사이트�s largest teachers바카라 게임 웹사이트� unions, the National Education Association.Previously, federal education programs were housed in other agencies. Trump has not said exactly how he would want to shut the department down 바카라 게임 웹사이트� which would require an act of Congress 바카라 게임 웹사이트� or what would happen to federally funded education programs if he did.Here바카라 게임 웹사이트�s what the Department of Education does and how eliminating it could play out:Funneling money to states and schoolsSome of the Department of Education바카라 게임 웹사이트�s biggest jobs are to administer federal funding appropriated by Congress to K-12 schools and manage the federal student loan and financial aid programs.Two of the biggest funding programs for K-12 schools are the Title I program, which is meant to help educate children from low-income families, and the IDEA program, which provides schools with money to help meet the needs of children with disabilities.These programs help fulfill the department바카라 게임 웹사이트�s congressionally declared purpose of 바카라 게임 웹사이트�ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Together, these programs provide K-12 schools with about $28 billion a year. But federal funding typically accounts for roughly just 10% of all school funding because the rest comes from state and local taxes. That said, schools received additional federal funding over the past four years to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.The Department of Education also distributes about $30 billion a year to low-income college students via the Pell grant program and manages the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio.Conducting oversight and making regulationsThe Department of Education also has an oversight role and engages in federal rulemaking.Its Office of Civil Rights, for example, is tasked with investigating alleged discrimination complaints at colleges and K-12 schools, which increased significantly after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel last October.The department can also create federal regulations. Some of the agency바카라 게임 웹사이트�s rules have recently touched on issues at play in the culture wars that seeped into local politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.President Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Department of Education strengthened protections for transgender students, and the agency is also involved in crafting the administration바카라 게임 웹사이트�s student loan forgiveness regulations. But both of those rules are currently tied up in court.Separately, the first Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidance that was meant to ensure minority students were not unfairly disciplined in schools.But states and local school boards still hold power that can바카라 게임 웹사이트�t be superseded by the department. During the pandemic, for example, the Department of Education could not require schools to close or remain open for in-person learning. In fact, despite a threat from then-President Trump, the executive branch could not unilaterally cut federal funding for schools that did not reopen in fall 2020.Federal money comes with strings attachedThe federal money that schools receive through programs like Title I and IDEA comes with strings attached. Schools get the money contingent on meeting certain conditions and reporting requirements.바카라 게임 웹사이트�For those of us concerned about the red tape the Department of Education creates, how we address those rules and conditions is the bigger question,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Frederick Hess, a senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Abolishing the department is little more than a shorthand,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said.One way to address the bureaucratic red tape is to deliver federal funds through what is called a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�block grant,바카라 게임 웹사이트� which comes with fewer requirements.Ending the department may not eliminate federal education fundingFederal funding programs for K-12 schools that help support the education of students from low-income families and children with disabilities predated the creation of the Department of Education.It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s possible some of these funding programs could be moved to other federal agencies if the Department of Education was abolished.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t think that schools would suddenly lose money,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab, a research center focused on education finance policy at Georgetown University.The Title I program, for example, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�has proven to be relatively popular on both sides of the aisle,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Roza said.When presidents have proposed cuts to the Department of Education바카라 게임 웹사이트�s budget in the past, Congress has resisted and appropriated more funding than what the president asked for about 71% of the time, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.Even when the first Trump administration proposed cutting the department바카라 게임 웹사이트�s budget, the Republican-controlled Congress ultimately increased funding.Congress is unlikely to approve a full agency shutdownIt바카라 게임 웹사이트�s worth noting that shutting down a federal agency would require an act of Congress.Calls to abolish the Department of Education or merge it with another federal agency are not new. Then-President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, called for eliminating the agency just one year after it started operating in 1980 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but backed off when there appeared to be little support in Congress.During Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s first term as president, his administration proposed merging the Education and Labor departments into one federal agency. Even though Republicans controlled both the Senate and House of Representatives at the time, the proposal did not go anywhere.Come January, Republicans are hoping to seize unified control in Washington; they will have the majority in the Senate but the balance of power in the House of Representatives is still undecided. Two new Republican members of the Senate 바카라 게임 웹사이트� Bernie Moreno, who defeated Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and Tim Sheehy, who defeated Jon Tester in Montana 바카라 게임 웹사이트� have embraced the idea.But even if the GOP takes the House, it remains unclear if there will be enough support for abolishing the department in Congress this time around.