WBOY – On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to “facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.” The Trump administration argues that the Department of Education is ineffective, saying that since its inception the Department of Education has spent $3 trillion without improving students’ standardized test scores.
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How will the dismantling of the Department of Education affect West Virginia? Education Policy Fellow Tamaya Browder, of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, wrote a brief looking into that question.
Browder spoke to 12 News and pointed out that the Department of Education plays a number of roles in the country, including providing funding to meet the needs of students with disabilities, protecting civil rights of students such as with Title IX, and funding low-income Title I schools.
