Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman (D) stated Sunday that she is desirous about the Division of Schooling’s disassembly within the wake of President Trump signing an government order in quest of to facilitate its removal.
“When I hear folks from Washington, they sound really out of touch with what’s going on in the state and certainly in our classrooms,” Coleman instructed NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.” “And I can say that because I went from being a high school teacher, a basketball coach and an assistant principal to being Kentucky’s lieutenant governor.”
“And what concerns me is the message that we’re sending at a macro level here, and that message is that the United States of America would rather dismantle the U.S. Department of Education than invest in the kids and the families that need it the most,” she added.
Trump’s government order recognizes that it will take congressional motion to near down the Division of Schooling utterly. Nonetheless, Trump ordered Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon to do all she will to lead to its abolition.
“Today, we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making,” Trump stated right through a White Space signing rite Thursday. “I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education.”
“The department’s useful functions … will be preserved, fully preserved,” the president added about Pell Grants, Name I investment and methods for college students with disabilities.
In her look on “The Hill Sunday,” Coleman stated that “kids from low income communities, kids who depend on Pell Grants to go to college, kids who depend on special education services, should not have to wonder if those services will be available to them based on who the governor and lieutenant governor is.”
The Hill has reached out to the White Space and Division of Schooling for remark.
