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Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman (D) said Sunday that she is acrophobic astir the Department of Education's disassembly successful the aftermath of President Trump signing an enforcement bid seeking to facilitate its elimination.
“When I perceive folks from Washington, they dependable truly retired of interaction with what's going connected successful the authorities and surely successful our classrooms,” Coleman told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt connected “The Hill Sunday.” “And I tin accidental that due to the fact that I went from being a precocious schoolhouse teacher, a hoops manager and an adjunct main to being Kentucky's lieutenant governor.”
“And what concerns maine is the connection that we're sending astatine a macro level here, and that connection is that the United States of America would alternatively dismantle the U.S. Department of Education than put successful the kids and the families that request it the most,” she added.
Trump's enforcement bid acknowledges that it would instrumentality legislature enactment to adjacent down the Department of Education completely. Still, Trump ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to bash each she tin to effect successful its abolition.
“Today, we instrumentality a precise historical enactment that was 45 years successful the making,” Trump said during a White House signing ceremonial Thursday. “I volition motion an enforcement bid to statesman eliminating the national Department of Education.”
"The department's utile functions … volition beryllium preserved, afloat preserved," the president added astir Pell Grants, Title I backing and programs for students with disabilities.
In her quality connected “The Hill Sunday,” Coleman said that “kids from debased income communities, kids who beryllium connected Pell Grants to spell to college, kids who beryllium connected peculiar acquisition services, should not person to wonderment if those services volition beryllium disposable to them based connected who the politician and lieutenant politician is.”
The Hill has reached retired to the White House and Department of Education for comment.
