20 March 2025 - Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education
Trump to sign order Thursday aimed at eliminating Education Department
Joey Garrison and Zachary Schermele (USA Today, 19/03/2025)
President Donald Trump is set to sign a long-anticipated executive order Thursday that seeks to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, delivering on a signature campaign promise to try to dismantle the agency, according to senior Trump administration officials.
Trump to sign executive order to abolish the Department of Education
Diana Stancy, Louis Casiano, Patrick Ward and Edward Lawrence (Fox News, 19/03/2025)
President Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to abolish the Department of Education.Trump is expected to sign an executive order following through on a campaign promise to disband the department, claiming on the campaign trail that the department was full of "radicals, zealots and Marxists."
What does the US education department do - and can Trump dismantle it?
Ana Faguy (BBC News, 19/03/2025)
The US Department of Education has announced plans to slash about half of its workforce, in what appears it be an intermediate step as President Donald Trump considers an executive order that would shut it down altogether.
Can Trump eliminate the Education Department? Here's what the Constitution says.
Maureen Groppe and Zachary Schermele (USA Today, 06/03/2025)
Teachers, parents and students may be wondering what might change on college and K-12 campuses, amid the bluster from the Trump administration about shuttering the Department of Education.
Seal of the United States Department of Education. Wikipedia, Public domain.
