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The brief reviews promises to close ED and evaluates the more realistic risk of federal education funding cuts, including impacts on K-12, postsecondary student aid, and minority-serving institutions. 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These pledges include loosening protections placed by the outgoing Biden Administration against sex and gender identity discrimination at federally funded schools, 1 weakening educational accessibility for immigrant students, 2 and decreasing the racial diversity of the postsecondary system.3 The most direct threat has been the repeated promise of closing the federal Department of Education (ED) in its entirety, a move that has been attempted multiple times since the department was founded in 1979 but that has failed in every instance.4  \nThis brief details the threat that the new administration poses to ED and its impact on postsecondary institutions. It analyzes how there is little political will to close ED, but significant federal education funding cuts are a possibility. Next, the brief outlines how postsecondary institutions are looking to private equity firms to cover potential financial shortfalls and provides policy recommendations for institutions, policymakers, and advocates on pathways to fiscally protect the postsecondary system.  \nShuttering the Department of Education and Redistributing Public Education Funds to Private Entities Lack Political Mandate  \nClosing ED would drastically impact every state not only by reducing federal K-12 and special education funding, but also through the potential cuts to postsecondary student aid and dedicated funds for minority-serving institutions (MSIs) . Federal postsecondary education spending is largely not transferred to state and municipal governments but instead distributed to students andinstitutions directly through financial aid programs and development funds. This spending from ED totaled over $30 billion for FY 2024, almost 40 percent of total appropriations for the department.5 ED also provided $400 million in funds to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), nearly $350 million for Hispanic-serving institutions, and over $80 million for tribal colleges and universities.6 Only seven states – Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming – do not currently have an institution with at least one of those three MSI designations.7 Although most federal postsecondary funds are not distributed similarly to K-12 spending, ED can still appropriate funds to states and cities for scenarios like the COVID-19 pandemic where smaller governments may face difficulty with fiscal sustainability. Despite the total allocation having been reduced by approximately 27 percent from FY 2022, federal stimulus funding was still used by 28 states and Washington, D.C. in FY 2023; in both Connecticut and Vermont, around 17 percent of postsecondary funding came from federal stimulus.8  \nED’s importance is not just evident in the money it provides to state and local governments, but also in the power it can wield. The most direct threat to state postsecondary systems is not the loss of ED but the stated goals of the Trump Administration that it would need ED to enforce. Undoing existing civil rights and racial equity initiatives, 9 reversing recent progress on national student loan  \nforgiveness efforts, 10 and reducing the federal aid available for students with low incomes 11 are easier for the new administration to accomplish through ED versus attempting to distribute across multiple federal agencies within a limited timeframe and with a slim Congressional majority.  \nThe lack of political mandate to fully close ED is not just evident within state governments, Congress, and the federal executive branch, but also with the American public. Policymakers were not the only choices on the ballot in","cbCaivzCy2L8y9hX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivzCy2L8y9hX","pdf",1034646,13,"English","# Threats to the Department of Education\n## Shuttering the Department of Education and Redistributing Public Education Funds to Private Entities\n## State Governments Have Placed Their Postsecondary Systems in Fiscal Danger Through Consistent Underfunding","[{\"question\":\"What is the central threat to the Department of Education discussed in the brief?\",\"answer\":\"The brief discusses threats that the new administration could undermine educational access, including repeated promises to close the Department of Education and the risk of substantial federal education funding cuts.\"},{\"question\":\"How would closing ED affect funding for schools and postsecondary students?\",\"answer\":\"Closing ED would reduce federal K-12 and special education funding and could also cut postsecondary student aid and dedicated funds for minority-serving institutions.\"},{\"question\":\"Why might postsecondary institutions turn to private equity under potential funding shortfalls?\",\"answer\":\"The brief argues that there may be limited political will to fully close ED, but significant federal funding cuts are plausible, creating fiscal gaps that institutions may seek to address through private equity.\"}]","Threats to the Department of Education - Private Equity Replacing Public Funding | PDF",1792046200,33]