Thread by @DeAngelisCorey

BREAKING: Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced a bill to ABOLISH the Department of Education 🚨

It is called the "Returning Education to Our States Act"

Here's the plan 👇🧵

"Effective on the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Department of Education is abolished"

Any program under the Department of Education will be repealed unless it is transferred to another Department.

Here are the transfers to the Department of Health and Human Services:
• Special needs (IDEA)
• Title VIII impact aid of ESEA

+ Office of Indian Education to Department of Interior

Transfers to the Department of the Treasury:

• Pell Grants
• Perkins Loans
• Federal Family Education Loans
•William D. Ford Loans
• Health Education Assistance Loans
• Education Sciences Reform Act
• Educational Technical Assistance Act
• Parts F/G/H of Title IV

Secretary of the Treasury provides block grants back to the states based on their number of K-12 students.

Funding can be used "for any purpose relating to early childhood, elementary, or secondary education."

Secretary of the Treasury will also provide block grants to the states for post-secondary education based on number of students enrolled.

To receive block grants, states must:

• Submit student data to the Secretary of Treasury annually
• Complete annual audits that conform to GAAP and submit results to Treasury
• Comply with all applicable Federal civil rights laws
• Repay any misused funds

"The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice shall be responsible for receiving complaints and otherwise enforcing and carrying out Federal civil rights laws that are applicable to the grant programs"

We now have a bill number.

S.5384 - "A bill to abolish the Department of Education"

It's in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.