The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department — something he cannot do without congressional approval.

Summary

The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

  • vaultdweller013
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    3 hours ago

    The foes of Western Rome wished for its collapse, skip forward a couple hundred years and Charlemagne conqeured as far as Carpathia. Nowadays things most far faster, I suspect the voide would be filled by better organized states who will have roughly the same foreign policy within a decade maybe less.