TRUMP TO CUT THE BOARD OF EDUCTION BY 50%

TRUMP TO CUT THE BOARD OF EDUCTION BY 50%. Since its establishment in 1979, the Department of Education has ballooned into a bureaucratic behemoth. In 2023, the department’s budget was roughly $79.6 billion, not including an additional $120 billion in pandemic relief funds allocated to schools. Despite these astronomical figures, student performance in reading, math and science has either stagnated or declined over the past two decades.