The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has approved a bill to eliminate more than half of all federal K-12 education programs.
Currently, federal law authorizes the Department of Education to administer over 80 such programs, many of which are considered duplicative, underperforming, or unnecessary. Most individual programs also have their own application process, which makes it difficult for school systems trying to take advantage of multiple streams of revenue.
“If a federally funded program is failing, it is our duty to get rid of it,” Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, who sponsored the legislation, said at a committee meeting Wednesday.
Democrats defended many of the programs targeted for elimination, emphasizing the importance of literacy and advocating for continued federal support for libraries and reading programs. “You talk to kids now days, they don’t go to libraries, they go to Wikipedia,” Hunter replied.
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