多名消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，预计唐纳德·特朗普总统将于周四签署一项行政命令，削减白宫教育部。
总统的命令将指示教育部长琳达·麦克马洪采取法律允许的所有必要措施解散教育部据消息来源称。
这一举动已经酝酿数月并将帮助总统实现他的竞选承诺关于回归教育权力和决定权交给各州。
根据美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)审查的白宫命令摘要，特朗普将指示麦克马洪采取“一切必要措施，推动关闭教育部，将教育权力归还给各州”。
该命令还要求“不间断地提供美国人所依赖的服务、项目和福利。”目前还不清楚政府计划如何实现这一目标。消息人士称，政府一直在研究如何将一些关键项目转移到其他机构。
共和党政府。据一名白宫官员称，佛罗里达州的罗恩·德桑蒂斯、弗吉尼亚州的格伦·杨金、得克萨斯州的格雷格·艾伯特和俄亥俄州的迈克·德温等州领导人预计将出席在白宫举行的签署仪式。
该部门上周采取了裁员和关闭的第一步解雇了将近一半的员工根据该部门的说法，通过大规模裁员，推迟辞职和退休买断，它的规模大幅缩小。
预计特朗普还将继续改革-发誓要从机构中清除更多的员工并彻底摧毁它。
“我预计它将(被完全关闭)，”特朗普本月早些时候对Sharyl Attkisson说。“你会留下几个人，只是为了确保(美国)教授英语——你知道，你说阅读、写作和算术。”
然而，废除一个联邦机构需要国会的批准，麦克马洪承认，她需要国会执行总统的愿景，关闭她一直在领导的部门。参议院需要60张赞成票才能克服阻挠议事，解散国会创建的机构。
批评家认为这个部门是必要的重要的财政援助和补助计划。教育专家建议，关闭教育部可能会耗尽公共教育资金，并对全国各地依赖法定授权项目的高需求学生产生不成比例的影响，如《残疾人教育法》和为低收入家庭提供资金的第1条。
麦克马洪说，该机构仍将管理那些来自弱势背景的学生所依赖的法定项目。在福克斯新闻频道“英格拉哈姆角度”的采访中，麦克马洪表示，管理法定职能的“好”员工不会因裁员而受到伤害。
该部门的一份声明称，它将“继续提供属于该机构权限范围内的所有法定项目，包括公式资助、学生贷款、佩尔助学金、特殊需要学生资助以及竞争性拨款。”
四十多年来，特朗普和教育部的怀疑者认为，该机构拥有太多的支出能力，却没有取得成果。
麦克马洪宣誓就职后，她强调废除该机构的根源在于允许家庭有权选择“优质教育”，这样美国学生就不会“困在失败的学校里”。
Trump expected to sign order gutting Department of Education, sources say
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to diminish the Department of Education at the White House on Thursday, multiple sources told ABC News.
The president's order will direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps permitted by law todissolve the Department of Education, according to the sources.
The move has beenmonths in the makingand will help the president fulfill hiscampaign promiseofreturning education powerand decisions to the states.
Trump will direct McMahon, to take "all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States," according to a White House summary of the order reviewed by ABC News.
The order also calls for the "uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely." It's still unclear how the administration plans to accomplish that. Sources said the administration has been looking into how to move some of the key programs to other agencies.
Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Greg Abbott of Texas and Mike DeWine of Ohio are among the state leaders expected to attend the signing ceremony at the White House, according to a White House official.
The department took the first steps to downsize and shut down last week when itlaid off nearly half its employees, and it shrunk significantly in size through a massive reduction in force, deferred resignations and retirement buyouts, according to the department.
Trump is also expected tocontinue the reforms-- pledging to erase more staff from the agency and gut it.
"I expect it will [be shut down entirely]," Trump said on "Full Measure" with Sharyl Attkisson earlier this month. "You'll have a few people left just to make sure [the states are] teaching English -- you know, you say reading, writing and arithmetic."
However, congressional approval is required to abolish a federal agency, and McMahon has acknowledged she would need Congress to carry out the president's vision to close the department she's been tapped to lead. It would take 60 "yes" votes in the Senate to overcome the filibuster and dismantle the agency that Congress created.
Critics argue the department is needed forvital financial assistance and grant programs. Education experts suggested that shuttering the Department of Education could gut public education funding and disproportionately affect high-need students across the country who rely on statutorily authorized programs, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Title 1, which provides funding for low-income families.
McMahon said the agency will still administer those statutory programs that students from disadvantaged backgrounds rely on. In an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," McMahon suggested the "good" employees who administer the statutorily mandated functions will not be harmed by staff reductions.
A statement from the department said it will "continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency's purview, including formula funding, student loans, Pell Grants, funding for special needs students, and competitive grantmaking."
In more than four decades, Trump and Department of Education skeptics believe the agency has had too much spending power without achieving results.
After McMahon was sworn in, she underscored that abolishing the agency is rooted in allowing families the right to choose a "quality education" so America's students aren't "stuck in failing schools."
