Teachers fear loss of funding

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Teachers fear shuttering Department of Education will diminish vital programs

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Federal funds from the Department of Education support programs, resources and sometimes even staffing to address educational barriers faced by low-income, low-performing, disabled and rural students.

Educators fear these programs could be diminished if the department is dismantled.

President Trump said he wants to eliminate the department and "send all education work and needs back to the States ".

Federal funding subsidizes salaries or pay for tutors, tutors and intervention specialists.

Getting rid of federal funding "gives our highest vulnerability students less one -on-one attention," teacher says.

Title I and IDEA were established through Congress , and it would take Congress to lead their undoing, lawmakers say.

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