Former President Donald Trump wants to end the Department of Education and empower states if he is reelected, he said during an X Spaces interview with Elon Musk on Monday.
The 45th president pointed out that U.S. education scores are tumbling compared to other developed countries, even though the United States spends “more per pupil than any other country in the world.”
“I want to close the Department of Education — move education back to the states…” Trump told Musk, Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner.
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Trump contended that if states were allowed sole control of their own educational systems, it would decrease costs while driving up healthy competition between the states.
“But if you moved education back to the 50 [states], you’ll have some that won’t do well…But they’ll actually be forced to do better…
