White House preparing executive order to abolish the Education Department
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President Donald Trump promised for years to abolish the department — which he can't do without congressional approval.

Summary

The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.

However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.

GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.

Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    That’s how fascism ended that one time. Francisco Franco died of old age in his bed. So did Pinochet. The generals’ junta in Portugal were eased out but the guilty were never held to account. The future is what we make it be. History doesn’t write itself.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      The actual Fascist leader in Portugal was nota a military and also died in his bed and the guys who were in power after him and were eased out were also not military.

      You might be mixing it with Greece which (if I remember it correctly) were a military junta, curiously militarily helped into getting power by the Brits at the end of WWII.