Trump plans to shift school funding control to local communities, has yet to pick DOE secretary
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President-elect Trump plans to "disband" or cut the Department of Education's power, likely through "block granting" to shift school control and funding to local communities, says an expert.
"Block granting is a little easier for people to understand, because it takes money and it doesn't just suddenly go away from states and districts, it keeps it," McCluskey told Fox News Digital in an interview. "It just gives them more control over it." Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
"This would be a pretty big change if it went from the federal government giving out money with all kinds of rules and regulations through a whole bunch of different programs, to the federal government consolidating almost every K-12 and giving them the money," he said.