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President Donald Trump moving forward with plans for the abolition of the Department of Education.
Trump is expected to sign the executive command after promising to dissolve the department on the campaign, claiming the trace of the campaign that the department is full of “radical, zealous and Marxist”.
The White House Facts list states that this move “will hand over education to families instead of bureaucracy.”
The directive comes after the Senate voted on Linda McMahon’s confirmation, former World Wrestling Enterinment (WWE) executive director, to run the agency on March 3. McMahon issued a letter later on that day, in which she emphasized her support to the Trump administration plans and that she would monitor the “new reckoning age” in the final days of the agency.
“The reality of our education system is Stark, and the American people chose President Trump for significant changes in Washington,” McMahon said in March 3. “It is our job to respect the will of the American people and the presidents who have elected, who has indebted to us to achieve the elimination of the bureaucratic fold here at the Department of Education – a significant final mission – fast and responsible.”
Linda McMahon’s education secretary appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions at a hearing for a certificate on February 13, 2025. (Getty Images)
After a report that Trump planned to sign the Executive Command, the US Federation of Teachers issued a statement that begged Congress to oppose the executive order and will not “take responsibility for all children, students and workers’ families, who deserve the future of full promise and capabilities, not reduced dreams.”
The teacher’s alliance pointed to a survey of eg/PBS News/Marist spent in February, which revealed that more than 60% of Americans “strongly opposed” eradicating the agency.
“The Department of Education and the Laws that should be executed, has one main purpose: leveling the playground and filling up the shortcomings able to help every child in America,” US Federation of Teachers, President Randa Weingarten, said March 5. “Trying to abolish him – what is, in the way his children, I can’t worry that his service is not sent. – But not all children.”
Despite Trump’s command, the President requires a congress to check for the eradication of the Agency, according to Article II of the US Constitution. Such a measure should pass 60 votes in Senate, and currently has only 53 Republicans.
Still, there is some appetite in the Congress to remove the department. For example, Rev. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Introduced a measure on January 31 at the NIX Education Department until December 2026.
Ambassador Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Center, introduced a measure on January 31 at the NIX Education Department until December 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“The unprecedented bureaucrats in Washington, DC should not be in charge of the intellectual and moral development of our children,” Massie said in the January 31. “States and local communities are best positioned to form a curriculum that meet the needs of their students. Schools should be responsible.”
Trump told reporters on February 4, although he appointed McMahon to run the education department, he eventually wanted to lose his job.
“What I want to do is let the states run schools,” Trump said on February 4th “I believe in the choice of school strongly. But with that, I want the states to run schools, and I want Linda to get out of work.”
The Karolina Leavitt White House secretary, in the picture here, also hinted that the American people could count on Trump’s promise of the campaign to end the department. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
The Karolina Leavitt White House secretary also hinted that the American people could count that Trump would move forward with such plans to dissolve the department.
“President Trump has run for that promise and I think the American people can expect to bring it out,” Leavitt Stuart Varney said on “Varney & Co.” February 4.
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The Department of Education, founded in 1980, seeks to improve the coordination of federal educational programs and support state and local school systems, according to its website. The agency received a $ 79.1 billion budget in the fiscal year 2024.
Trump said at a gathering in September 2024 that he wanted to reduce the “wetland of government education and stop the abuse of dollars of your taxpayers to indoctrinate American youth with all kinds of things you don’t want to listen to our youth.”
The critics of the Department of Education also pointed to the “National Reporting Card”, 2024. National Assessment of Progress Education (NAEP) published every two years, published on January 27. The exam is tested by fourth and eighth grade students, and they have found that they are almost a standing mathematical results for the eights compared to 2022 and directed on various levels.
“In the language of the report, what is D- is now F,” wrote former Betsy Devos Secretary-General at Fox News Digital.
Former Betsy Devos Education Secretary said that the US needed a “complete reset” when it comes to education that gives priority to students in OP-ed for Fox News Digital. (Jim Watson)
As a result, now it takes a “complete reset” that gives priority to students, she said. This begins with the closure of the Department of Education, agencies that focused more on mandates of diversity, equality and involvement than on the foundations of education, she said.
In the meantime, Democrats pressed the Ministry of Education in February for more information about its future, due to concern that Trump’s administration would close the agency.
“We will not stand and allow this to happen to the students of the nation, the parents, the borrowers, the teachers and the communities,” the legislators wrote in a letter to the acting Minister for Education Denise Carter 5 February. “Congress created a department to ensure that all students in America have an equal approach to higher quality education and that their civil rights are not protected by their ZIPs.”
Associated Press and Fox News’ Kayla Bailey contributed to this report. This is a breaking story, make sure there are updates.
