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The Baltimore Sun |
Three senators have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
Yahoo |
The U.S. Department of Education provides the support and oversight that states and school districts need to ensure that children like my son receive a free and appropriate public education in the le...
Houston Chronicle |
Civil rights advocates see Trump’s order to shutter the department as a broadside against hard-fought gains in educational access — an unfinished, but nonetheless central, part of the movement for ra...
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U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, criticized the Trump Administration's efforts to close the U.S. Department of Education.
The Education Department is the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students.
U.S. teachers unions and rights advocates, including the NAACP, sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent the attempted dismantling of the federal Education Department, days after Trump signed an executive order to that effect.
and that he wants Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who attended the White House event, to put herself out of a job. The department oversees some 100,000 public and 34,000 private schools in the United States, although more than 85% of public school ...
President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications.
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The lawsuit argues that since the Education Department was created (and funded) by Congress, it can only take an act of Congress to end it — not an executive order from the president.
Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. Does that mean it's gone? What you need to know for Mississippi schools.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, which Education Secretary Linda McMahon earlier acknowledged was her top priority.
NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. about the dismantling of the education department and recent arrests of international scholars.