Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions — 85 posts — The True Story

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Trump signed an executive order on Thursday "returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs."
Fox News
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Shutting down the department wholesale would require an act of Congress, which created the agency in 1979.
CNN
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday in an effort to “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education.” With the stroke of his pen, he officially set in motion a plan to shutter the 46-year-old agency, as he said, “once and for all.”
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The US president was surrounded by over a dozen students today (20 March) as he signed the order, which will aim to “eliminate” the DOE “once and for all.”
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