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Multiple Democrats are pledging allegiance to the U.S. Department of Education after President Donald Trump, as part of his agenda to eliminate waste, fraud and corruption in the federal government, has called for it to be shut down.

In fact, public schools in American are run mostly by local boards following state regulations, but a commentary at Twitchy explained the huge significance of a federal bureaucracy to dictate to schools.

"Local school districts receive only a small fraction of their funding from the federal government—an amount so negligible it would barely be missed if it disappeared. Instead, this money could be redistributed to the states, allowing them to allocate it to schools based on specific needs, such as areas with extreme poverty or a high percentage of students with learning differences. The real reason Democrats champion the Department of Education, however, is that it serves as a tool to promote their Leftist 'woke' agenda," it said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to social media to insist that Democrats would "fight" Trump's plans, because, "Almost 90% of students in the U.S. attend public school. And every single district will suffer."

But social media suggested that Schumer was far wrong.

Author Michael Shellenberger said, "Closing the Department of Education will hurt kids, say Democrats. The evidence suggests the opposite. The Dept. of Ed. promoted pseudoscientific alternatives to the science of reading & direct instruction of math. The result? A catastrophic decline in student performance."

And at RedState was a response to Schumer: "Total nonsense backed by zero empirical evidence. The Department of Education has produced 'worse' outcomes for students over the years. It's pushed nonsense alternative learning methods that have led to falling test scores and higher rates of illiteracy."

Another pointed out how scores have declined while funding has skyrocketed:

Others openly disputed Schumer's claims, including one who pointed out that the states and local boards "managed to educate children for 200 years before the dept. was established."