Koloradin is watching how US Department of Education deducted
The state can affect moving forward.
This week the department removed 1,300 jobs. Another 600 employees resigned, with almost half of their manpower. Department staff at the Federal Building on Spare Bouver in Denver were told not to come to work on Wednesday, but the Denver Office was not subjected to deductions.
Nevertheless, the elimination of jobs in the neighboring areas in the Office for Civil Rights is some concern that it will be more difficult for students to be discriminated against.
“Without the administrative agency, Parents are released with alternatives, such as going to a government agency that enforces similar laws or going to court,” said Emily Harvey, co -legal director of the Disability Law Colorado.
While President Trump said his administration would transfer control of education to the states, he had also signed several executive orders for the establishment of federal rules for K-12 schools.
In January, Trump signed an executive order for which federal funding is preferred School selection programs
. An executive order Signed in January
By teaching about race and racism, K-12 banned “radical gender theory and critical races theory” in K-12 schools. Another Executive Order in February will ban federal funding for Coid -19 schools Vaccine mandate
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Trump said, though he would like to end the education department, a Congress Act is needed to do so.
“There is a question about whether the department can fulfill its legal and constitutional duties as a whole, if it reduces its capacity in a meaningful way,” said Dr. Kevin Waler of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Bolder.
The department said it would continue to monitor the formula for financing, students’ loans, yellow grants, funding for students with special needs and competitive grant making.
Colorado receives about 30 % of his fund to implement the Federal Unders With Disables Education Act (Idea), said Palm Bisgelia, Executive Director of Denver, Palm Bisgelia, Palm Bisgelia. “We do not want to compromise the offer of free and appropriate public education,” he added.
