Shirleen Guerra | March 24, 2025 (The Center Square) — President Donald Trump issued orders to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and transfer responsibilities back to the states; Gov. Glenn Youngkin responded, “Virginia is ready.” Youngkin’s backing of Trump’s executive order aligns with a broader effort to shift Virginia’s education policies to state control. One clear […]
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Derrick Max | March 24, 2025 (Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy) — As promised repeatedly during the campaign, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education (the Department). The order also ensures the continued delivery of essential services such as federal
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Philip Wegmann | March 22, 2025 (RealClearPolitics) — Forty-five years ago Ronald Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. Now, more than a generation later, Donald Trump has finally started to deliver with an executive order that serves as the most dramatic mile-marker in his long march through the federal bureaucracy. “It sounds strange,
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EdNews Virginia | March 21, 2025 On Thursday, President Trump issued the following executive order, which directs Secretary McMahon to shut down the federal Department of Education to the fullest extent possible under current law. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,
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