Expected Trump Order to Shutter Education Dept. Could Amount to ‘Pocket Change’
Feb 04, 2025
Expected Trump Order to Shutter Education Dept. Could Amount to ‘Pocket Change’
The 74
Despite the fiery rhetoric, President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a Department of Education he accuses of abusing “taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth” comes down, appropriately, to civics and math.
Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
New data for the 2025-2026 school year show that homeschooling participation continued to grow across the country, but the pace of that growth has slowed.
EdWeek
The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.