GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — President Donald Trump has plans to make good on another campaign promise: abolish the Department of Education.

Trump said he wants the states to run the schools, but some parents in the Triad have concerns.

Parents with kids who have learning disabilities are particularly concerned. Right now, their kids learn in public schools alongside their peers, but without the Department of Education advocating, funding and holding schools accountable, they worry for their kids’ future.

“There are real human impacts that are going to come,” said Laura Laxton, a Winston-Salem mom who thinks about her 17-year-old son.

In Greensboro, Martha Chaires thinks of her nine-year-old.

“They are not just nameless, faceless creatures. They are human beings. They are kids on their student council. They are kids who win the kindness award. They are my child,” Chaires said.

Both students are in public school with individual education plans.

“That has really helped him a lot. He has been able to really make some big breakthroughs,” Chaires said.

If the Department of Education goes away and duties get divided up to other departments, it could make upholding a child’s right to education more difficult to enforce.

“Right now, if a parent feels their child is not getting appropriate education or the accommodations … a parent can say hey, ‘This is the federal law. I can take it up to this level,’ and somebody says, ‘Nope. You have to do this,’” Laxton said.

Parents fear this will go back on all of their advocacy work to get their kids in classrooms with their peers.

“Human beings fear what they are unfamiliar with … By separating … our kids … they are getting denied the chance to know kids with different abilities are still people,” Laxton said.

They want their kids to learn in their community.

“I love this place. I have been here my whole life. I never want to live anywhere else. I really don’t want to have to move somewhere else for my kid to be able to go to school, and I am worried about that happening,” Chaires said.

If the states take over, parents worry it will come down to the political agenda in that state.

“That means we would have 50 different ways of having anything interpreted, enforced, administered,” Laxton said.

Since the department was established by Congress, it would require an act of Congress to shut it down.

“We call our Senators every day and our Congress people … I am hopeful that there will be enough of a reminder to keep that in place and keep those protections in place for our kids,” Chaires said.

In addition to students with disabilities, the Department of Education administers funding for K-12 schools that Congress appropriates.

It also helps protect students from discrimination and administers student loans and grants, including its biggest program for low-income students, the Pell Grant.