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March 21, 2025

Trump Signs Executive Order to Dismantle the Education Department
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to start
dismantling the Department of Education.

President Donald Trump: "My administration will take all lawful steps to
shut down the department. We're going to shut it down and shut it down
as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good. We want to return our
students to the states."

The department cannot be fully shut down without an act of Congress, but
Trump's order directs Education Secretary Linda Mc Mahon to shutter
regional offices, transfer out some of its key functions and further
slash the department's workforce, which has already been cut in half
since Trump took office. The fate of public education funding, labor,
civil rights protections and financial aid for students now hangs in the
balance. Protests are planned for today in D.C. and beyond. We'll have
more on Trump's executive order and its implications after headlines.


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