U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20, 2025, aimed at shutting down the Department of Education. However, on May 22, 2025, a judge temporarily blocked his order and ...

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election has given new life to longstanding Republican calls to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. On the campaign trail and in his ...

The Education Department said that it is cutting about half of its staff. The staff reductions are the largest in department history, and a major step toward President Donald Trump’s bid to shrink the ...

On March 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education. "My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department. We ...