The proposed changes from Trump changing the education policy would allow the states to manage schools for an exchange of federal funding. With this removal no one will oversee the Students Succeeds Act, impacting individual states since “Trump vowed to “adopt a Parental Bill of Rights, and implement the direct election of school principals by the parents””. Furthermore there will be no administration for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This will impact schools special services which gives grants for school safety. Not to mention, this will also greatly impact teachers.
While interviewing Don David, a Spanish teacher at Hall High School, he said how removing the department will be taking aspects of education away from future leaders, and that everyone in education will be impacted as we will be working off of fewer resources.
“This is going to add a lot of new, unnecessary stress on parents and teachers”, Eugenia Watfi, a mother of two high schoolers, said.
