I'm here inside the East Room where President Trump just signed an executive order to start the dismantling of the Department of Education. He can't simply shut the department down with a stroke of his pen like when he signs his executive orders. That would require an act of Congress to actually eliminate it. And so far, proposals that we've seen on Capitol Hill have not been successful. But conservatives for decades have sought to do this. And President Trump may have just come closer than any other president has before. His actual Education Secretary was sitting in the front row, and he told her that he hopes that she is the last Education Secretary, with Linda McMahon laughing as the president said that. Trump: โShe's had nothing but success, so it's tremendous to have you, and hopefully you won't be there too long, but we're going to find something else for you, Linda, okay?โ Now, there are big questions about what the effects of this executive order are. Obviously, schools get 90% of their funding from state and local governments. They don't get their curriculum from the Department of Education either. But we know the DOE does disburse funding for low-income students, students with disabilities, also the federal student loan program. And so it remains to be seen what happens to those programs, because the White House has vowed anything that's critical that the department does won't be touched. But with the slashing of the staff at the DOE and the president's executive order, it remains to be seen what that actually looks like.
- executive order: ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น
- dismantle: ํด์ฒดํ๋ค, ๋ถํดํ๋ค, ์ฒ ๊ฑฐํ๋ค.
- an act of Congress: ์ํ์ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ ์
- sought to do (something): ~ํ๋ ค๊ณ ์ ์ฐ๋ค, ์๋ํ๋ค. seek์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐํ
- disburse funding: ์๊ธ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ถํ๋ค, ์ง๊ธํ๋ค.
- remains to be seen: ๋๊ณ ๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค, ์์ง ๋ถํ์คํ๋ค.
- vow: ๋งน์ธํ๋ค, ์ฝ์ํ๋ค.
๋๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ด์คํธ๋ฃธ ์์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ด ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ฅผ ํด์ฒดํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น์ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์๋ช
ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์์ ์ ํ ํ ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น๋ค์ฒ๋ผ ๋จ์ํ ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ์ํ ์๋ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์ค์ ๋ก ์์ ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์ํ์ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ ์ ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ํ์์ ์ ์๋ ๋ฒ์๋ค์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ณด์์ฃผ์์๋ค์ ์์ญ ๋
๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ๋ํต๋ น๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ด ๋ชฉํ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ํ์ง ๊ต์ก๋ถ ์ฅ๊ด์ ๋งจ ์์ค์ ์์ ์์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋
์๊ฒ ์์ ์ด ๊ทธ๋
๊ฐ ๋ง์ง๋ง ๊ต์ก๋ถ ์ฅ๊ด์ด ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. ๋ํต๋ น์ด ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ์ ๋ฆฐ๋ค ๋งฅ๋งํ์ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ฑ๊ณต๋ง์ ๊ฑฐ๋์๊ณ , ๋น์ ์ ๋ชจ์๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ์ข๋ค. ์ค๋ ๋จธ๋ฌผ ํ์๋ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ฆฐ๋ค, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋น์ ์ ์ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ จํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค, ์๊ฒ ๋? ์ด์ ์ด ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น์ ์ํฅ์ด ๋ฌด์์ผ์ง์ ๋ํด ํฐ ์๋ฌธ์ด ์ ๊ธฐ๋๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ถ๋ช
ํ ํ๊ต๋ค์ ์๊ธ์ 90%๋ฅผ ์ฃผ ๋ฐ ์ง๋ฐฉ ์ ๋ถ๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ง์๋ฐ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ต์ก๊ณผ์ ๋ ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์ง ์๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ ์ ์๋์ธต ํ์๊ณผ ์ฅ์ ํ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ์๊ธ ๋์ถ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ํด ์๊ธ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ถํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๋ ค์ ธ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ ์ง๋ ๋๊ณ ๋ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ๋ฐฑ์
๊ด์ ๊ต์ก๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ด๋นํ๋ ํต์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ผ๋ค์ ๊ฑด๋๋ฆฌ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ค์งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ต์ก๋ถ ์ง์๋ค์ ๋ํญ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณผ ๋ํต๋ น์ ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น์ผ๋ก ์ธํด, ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ค ๋ชจ์ต์ด ๋ ์ง๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ถํ์คํ๋ค. |