内容摘要：The meeting ignited into a shouting match after an intervention by Vice-President JD Vance.

The meeting ignited into a shouting match after an intervention by Vice-President JD Vance.

Trump and his allies have accused the agency of indoctrinating young people with racial, sexual and political material.A common misconception is that the Department of Education operates US schools and sets curricula - that responsibility actually belongs to states and local districts.

The agency does oversee student loan programmes and administers Pell grants that help low-income students attend university.It also helps fund programmes to support students with disabilities and for students living in poverty.And the department enforces civil rights law designed to prevent race or sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools.

The department's allocation was $238bn (£188bn) in fiscal year 2024 - less than 2% of the total federal budget.The agency has about 4,400 employees, the smallest of any cabinet-level department. The Trump administration has sought to cut that and the department announced plans to

Most public funding for US schools comes from state and local governments.

In 2024, the Education Data Initiative estimated that the US spends a total of just over $857bn on primary and secondary education - the equivalent of $17,280 per pupil.He also said that visitors to the area were not staying as long as they used to, and that going to the cinema was no longer a "priority".

For cinemas to stay open, "people need to come to them", he added.Mr Morris, who runs several cinemas, said: "I've been depressed about it for quite some time.

"I've put a lot of time and money into the cinema, we moved up here to take over the Royalty and our principal reason for our being here is no longer."So it's lots of sad things all rolled into one, really."