LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Hundreds of thousands of students make the trip from their homes to classrooms across the state every day. It’s take a lot of money—and dedicated staff—to keep Nebraska’s education humming along.
Most of that money is local, but some of it comes from the federal government through the U.S. Department of Education.
President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to shake up at least the federal side of the equation.
“Closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C. and sending all education and education work and needs back to the state,” Trump has said.
That promise, however, hasn’t left life-long educator and now president of the Nebraska State Education Association Tim Royers rattled, at least not yet.
“I feel a lot of things have to change for that to become a reality,” Royers said, speaking of the lack of Congressional support for …