Valley educators call federal funding "essential" as Trump weighs shuttering Dept. of Education

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley acquisition leaders are present racing to recognize a flurry of enforcement orders from President Trump, including 1 that could unopen down the national Department of Education.

"It's created rather a spot of disorder astir the acquisition environment," Merced County Office of Education Superintendent Steve Tietjen, Ed.D., said.

He oversees 20 schoolhouse districts and administers national backing for section programs, including $6 cardinal for Special Education.

"That chunk of wealth flows from the Federal Government to the State and past down to the section level to service students that are the astir disabled," Tietjen said.

He believes the backing is protected by national mandates, but it is unclear if the process to entree it could change.

Sources archer ABC News President Trump could soon adjacent the Department of Education done an enforcement order.

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"We're ranked astatine the bottommost of the list, were ranked precise badly," President Trump said Tuesday. "And what I privation to bash is fto the states tally schools. I judge powerfully successful schoolhouse choice. But successful summation to that, I privation the states to tally schools."

The president's bid would fundamentally gut the section from the wrong out, requiring the Secretary of Education to taxable a connection for dismantling the department.

"The Secretary of Education, however, could ne'er enactment that program into effect, and neither could the president, truthful they tin travel up with each the plans they want. But they're meaningless," Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke said. "Congress would person to enactment connected that plan."

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A White House newsman pressed the president astir the feasibility successful the Oval Office.

"Do you deliberation that's thing you tin bash with an Executive Order, oregon are you going to inquire Congress astir it?" the newsman asked.

"I'd similar to beryllium capable to bash it," the president said.

President Trump has agelong campaigned connected reforming education, giving greater power to authorities and region departments.

Tietjen says they are already successful charge.

"States already power education," helium said. "They already acceptable the guidelines for the program ... That's each state-level law. That's not national law."

Fresno County Superintendent of Schools Michele Cantwell-Copher, Ed.D., tells Action News she is intimately monitoring these reports.

Cantwell-Copher called national backing "essential" for section programs and says it makes up 17 percent of the office's budget.

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