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Trump has ordered the dismantling of the Education Department. Here’s what it does

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades. The order says Education Secretary Linda McMahon will, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.” Eliminating the department altogether would be a cumbersome task, which […]

todayMarch 22, 2025 2

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Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

 President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement. Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, finalizing its dismantling is likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in […]

todayMarch 19, 2025 1

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The Education Department was created to ensure equal access. Who would do that in its absence?

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities: civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, perhaps; student loans to Treasury or Commerce; oversight of student disability rights to Health and Human Services. Less clear is what could happen with a more lofty part of its mission — promoting equal access for students in an American education system that is fundamentally unequal. The department has cut its workforce in […]

todayMarch 12, 2025 2

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Senate confirms McMahon to lead Education Department as Trump pushes to shut it down

The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Donald Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle. McMahon will face the competing tasks of winding down the Education Department while also escalating efforts to achieve Trump’s agenda. Already the Republican president has signed sweeping orders to rid America’s schools of diversity programs and accommodations for transgender students while also calling for expanded school choice programs. At the same time, Trump has promised to […]

todayMarch 3, 2025 2

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Trump’s Education secretary pick declines to say if Black history courses violate anti-DEI order

Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump‘s nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, vaguely responded to questions from U.S. senators about whether Black history courses in public schools would violate Trump’s anti-DEI order in education. And while she expressed support for continued funding for HBCUs, McMahon signaled that some schools could lose federal funding for so-called DEI programs. During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday, McMahon was asked directly by Senator […]

todayFebruary 14, 2025 2

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Trump officials deny Democrats access to Education Department, fueling backlash

Democratic members of Congress were left astounded and incensed on Friday after they were denied entry at the Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. The group was attempting to schedule a meeting with its acting secretary about President Donald Trump‘s plans to shutter the 45-year-old agency. It was a dramatic scene outside the Education Department’s front entrance as a federal employee identifying himself as “security” faced questions and outrage from Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., Jahana […]

todayFebruary 8, 2025 1

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Advocates decry expected executive order from Trump to gut Department of Education

President Donald Trump and White House officials are reportedly drafting an executive order that would essentially defund the U.S. Department of Education and begin the process of achieving a campaign promise to eliminate the federal agency altogether. According to The Washington Post, the upcoming order, which is expected to be signed later this month, seeks to dismantle the Education Department “from within” by ordering agency officials to “diminish itself.” By law, the Trump administration cannot unilaterally eliminate the department without […]

todayFebruary 5, 2025 1

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Trump calls for ‘ending radical indoctrination in K-12’ education and prioritizing school choice-what does it mean for Black students?

President Donald Trump signed executive orders directing federal agencies to end “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools and allocate significant federal funding for expanding school choice. Some advocates warn that Trump’s latest actions on education could further politicize the classroom, while others say it would divert crucial funding away from already underfunded neighborhood public schools in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods. The orders, which Trump signed on Wednesday, prohibits federal funding for schools that include what the administration considers to be […]

todayJanuary 29, 2025 1

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Trump has called for dismantling the Education Department. Here’s what that would mean

WASHINGTON (AP) — Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.” He has picked Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the department. But like many conservative politicians before him, Trump has called for dismantling the department altogether — a cumbersome task that likely would require action from Congress. The agency’s main role is financial. Annually, it distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and […]

todayNovember 20, 2024