{"id":1051186,"date":"2025-02-05T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051186"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:53:05","slug":"icymi-axios-trump-voting-states-have-more-to-lose-if-education-department-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-axios-trump-voting-states-have-more-to-lose-if-education-department-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Axios: Trump-Voting States Have More to Lose if Education Department Dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> <em>\u201c<\/em><em>President Trump&#8217;s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue. \u2026 States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/05\/trump-federal-education-funding-map-schools\"><strong>Axios<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong><strong>Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By April Rubin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>President Trump&#8217;s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>States would likely handle cuts to federal education funding in different ways. <strong>Those that have more low-income families and, in turn, receive higher shares of Title I funding would feel the impact most<\/strong>, per Welner.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIn states that are already financially strained because they just have less wealth, this could result simply in <strong>less funding and fewer resources for the students<\/strong>,\u201d Welner said.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student performance, which was already in decline before the pandemic, has worsened since 2020, making federal funds to help bridge academic gaps all the more important.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trump regularly floated eliminating the Department of Education on the campaign trail<\/strong><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trump promised to sign an executive order curtailing the Department of Education&#8217;s powers<\/strong>, and dozens of its employees were placed on administrative leave last week.<strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cPresident Trump&#8217;s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue. \u2026 States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris.\u201d Axios: Trump-voting states have more to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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