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Trump’s budget affects education
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Trump’s budget affects education

  • By John Fensterwald,Diana Lambert, Emma Gallegos and Zaidee Stavely EdSource
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President Donald Trump would maintain funding levels for students with disabilities and for Title I aid for low-income students while wiping o…

Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
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Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions

  • By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Education Department. The Republican president announced his plan Thursday. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979. And the White House says the department would not close completely right now. It is to retain certain critical functions, like managing federal student loans and Pell grants.