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ROCHESTER — Minnesota’s public schools receive millions of dollars in federal funding, and state education leaders are uncertain what to expect in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s indications that he would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Kent Pekel said it’s too early to plan the district’s operations around what may or may not happen under the new administration, but that it’s hard to imagine the federal department going away completely. ADVERTISEMENT “If it didn’t exist, you would largely have to reinvent it,” Pekel said about the Department of Education. “You would have to put the functions in other agencies because I think very few Americans would want to see them go away altogether.” He went on to highlight the federal department’s role in administering student loans, undertaking education-focused research, and providing funding for special education. Minnesota leaders are also unsure what education could look like under a new administration. Minnesota Department of Education Communications Director Sam Snuggerud said it's too early to comment about what may be ahead for the state-level department in light of speculation about its federal counterpart. “MDE remains committed to ensuring every student receives a world-class education from qualified teachers in a safe, nurturing school environment, regardless of who is elected in Washington, D.C., or St. Paul,” Snuggerud said via email following the election. On Thursday, Nov. 21, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education. Under the proposed bill, DOE duties would be redistributed to other federal departments. "Local school boards and state departments of education know best what their students need, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.," Rounds said in a statement. “For years, I’ve worked toward removing the federal Department of Education. I’m pleased that President-elect Trump shares this vision, and I’m excited to work with him and Republican majorities in the Senate and House to make this a reality. This legislation is a roadmap to eliminating the federal Department of Education by practically re-homing these federal programs in the departments where they belong, which will be critical as we move into next year.” Chris Williams, press secretary for the statewide teachers union Education Minnesota, also said it’s too early to say anything definitive about how the new presidential administration may impact Minnesota’s schools. ADVERTISEMENT It was not all that long ago in the grand scheme of history that the federal department was created in its current form. It came to be under the administration of Jimmy Carter in 1979 through the Department of Education Organization Act. However, according to a history on the department's website, there was an “office of Education” as far back as 1868. The history on the department’s website goes on to say that “over the years, the office remained relatively small, operating under different titles and housed in various agencies.” In the 1950s, the federal government started dedicating more funding to science-based education programs in the wake of the space race with the Soviet Union. The federal government continued expanding its educational priorities up until the creation of the Department itself. “This expansion continued in the 1970s with national efforts to help racial minorities, women, people with disabilities and non-English-speaking students gain equal access to education,” the Department’s history reads. Despite the Department of Education's role in funding schools, the actual policies, curriculum and standards — the core of the education itself — is delegated to the individual states. There has been speculation swirling about the Department of Education’s future since long before Election Day. Beyond Trump’s own indications, the possibility of downscaling the department was also a component of Project 2025, a political playbook drafted by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, which isn’t officially affiliated with the presidential administration. According to neaToday, a publication of the National Education Association, Project 2025’s “overall goal is to strip the federal role in education down to ‘that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.’” ADVERTISEMENT The NEA went on to say Project 2025 would put more stress on “already tight education budgets," and that it would undermine “the academic outcomes of 2.8 million of the nation’s most vulnerable students.” Even though state governments control most aspects of how public schools operate, the federal department still plays a role. In Rochester, federal funding makes up 4% of the school district’s 2024-25 budget, amounting to more than $17 million. Not unlike the attention to science education in the 1950s in the lead-up to the Department's creation, today’s students are entering a world of constant technological change. Pekel said it’s hard to see how the elimination of the federal department would be helpful. “No high-performing system would do this; no high-performing company would say ‘let’s get rid of the strategy at the central level,'” Pekel said. “I think we’ve learned that anything’s possible.”Cellular Concrete Market 2024-2033: Global Outlook, Industry Share, Latest Trends And Major Players
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