A senior administration official said student loans, Title I, which provides financial assistance to school districts for children from low-income families, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act will not be changed by the executive order. It’s unclear, however, which federal entity would be responsible for them if the Education Department is dissolved.
Title 1 budget for 2024 is $20.5B. IDEA budget is $15B. Total department budget for 2024 is $268B. With no more Dept of Ed, no more “No Child Left Behind”, no more “Every Student Succeeds Act” (TIG repealed the accountability standards for ESSA in 2017) Now states will have “freeedom” to dumb down their education systems as low as they want.
Steve