WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday, waving away concerns that the move would create uncertainty for funding and civil rights protections in public education.
“It's insanity that we had this massive bureaucracy at the Department of Education where we've been spending countless dollars of American money and not getting results for it,” Abbott said during an executive order signing at the White House. “We will get far better results by having this money go directly to the states, where the states know far better how to appropriate this money to yield better results.”
