Trump begins dismantling the Department of Education

The U.S. Department of Education is committed to ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination,

the portal reads

We’ll be able to cut [federal spending on] education in half and get much better education in some of the states,

Trump said last June in Philadelphia

We need to get back to the basics of public education,

Justice said

Frederick M. Hessamerican political scientist (born 1968)

The only reason the DoE itself is significant is because it has operated as a one-stop shop for Democratic interest groups,

Hess said

What the hell do you have to lose?”

He asked

Frederick M. Hessamerican political scientist (born 1968)

There are limits — and appropriately so — to what executive action alone can accomplish,

Hess said

Frederick M. Hessamerican political scientist (born 1968)

There’s a potential tension here between addressing antisemitism at universities or toxic, race-based dogmas at certain colleges, while downsizing the staff at the department who handles those things,

said Frederick Hess, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

We're not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven't for a long time,

Trump said Thursday before signing the executive order

Karoline Leavittpress Secretary

I would like to point out that the judges in this country are acting erroneously,

Leavitt said in a Wednesday news briefing

I’m thrilled to announce that at my direction the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet,

Trump said Friday in the Oval Office at the White House

Technical teams will meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss broadening the ceasefire to the Black Sea on the way to a full ceasefire,

the White House said in a statement Thursday

And then you'll have some laggards, and we'll work with them,

Trump said

The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built,

Trump said

I think this is the beginning of a war,

Gardea said

What is going to happen is only the parents that have the privilege, that have the resources and have the agency to be able to file federal lawsuits, are going to be able to get justice for their kids,

she said

We should expect the assurances that have been provided to students and families to no longer exist,

Johns said

Parents are going to get frustrated, and we might see more legal matters,

Graves said

It really says a lot about our country,

Gardea said

And so, what I don’t want is, I don’t want it so shut down in so many ways that kids are really hurt. And then somebody says, ‘Oops, we didn’t mean to do that.’ Kids go through kindergarten once,

Weingarten added

Today’s NAEP results reveal a heartbreaking reality for American students and confirm our worst fears: not only did most students not recover from pandemic-related learning loss, but those students who were the most behind and needed the most support have fallen even further behind,

the Education Department said in a statement