President Trump has instructed new Department of Education head Linda McMahon to "put herself out of a job."
Donald Trump could make a drastic move to reshape American classrooms within the next 24 hours by shuttering the Department of Education.
The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as Thursday which would bring about abolishing the federal agency, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon will be tasked with taking 'all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department,' the publication reported, citing a draft of the order.
This will be done to 'the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.'
According to the publication, the draft order reads: 'The experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars - and the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support - has failed our children, our teachers, and our families.'
Trump comments on February 5, 2025:
McMahon on Monday was confirmed to lead the doomed 4,200-person federal agency.
She sent a company-wide email to staff on Monday in which she lauded her mission to dismantle the agency, describing it as a 'momentous final mission.'
She said she had been 'tasked... with accomplishing the elimination of the bureaucratic bloat here at the Education Department - a momentous final mission - quickly and responsibly.'
'I want Linda to put herself out of a job,' Trump said of McMahon in February.
Established by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the department provides essential funding to children with disability and low-income students around the country.
National Education Association President Becky Pringle said last month that cutting the department would 'steal resources for our most vulnerable students, explode class sizes, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, take away special education services for students with disabilities, and gut student civil rights protections.'
The Department of Education has been low hanging fruit for Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
Already DOGE has celebrated cutting billions of dollars from the agency, over half a billion of which came from canceling DEI grants.
And last month, Trump said the Education Department was 'a big con job' and that 'I'd like to close it immediately.'
During her confirmation hearing in February, McMahon lauded the work of the Musk-led group.
'So DOGE, there are a couple of implants at the Department of Education as there are with agencies throughout the district,' McMahon said. 'They're doing an audit.'
During the session she claimed the department was guilty of 'excessive consolidation of power,' and called for 'education freedom, not government-run systems.'
'Listen to parents, not politicians,' she said. 'Build up careers, not college debt.'
Trump vowed during his election campaign to end what he called 'wokeness' and 'indoctrination' at the agency.
Education Department spokeswoman Madi Biedermann said earlier this week that McMahon was very clear in her intention to bring Trump's vision to life.
'He was very clear about what his vision for the department looked like, and Secretary McMahon was clear in the hearing that she is here to implement his agenda,' she said.
Trump advisers were reportedly considering executive actions to effectively dismantle the Education Department without falling foul of the law as soon as he returned to the White House.
They had reportedly discussed an executive order which would 'shut down all functions of the agency that aren't written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments.'
That suggests officials concluded Trump could not get rid of the agency outright without buy-in from Congress, where Republicans hold narrow majorities in both houses.
The order could call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department.
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Schools give children a purpose until they can figure their own out when they have matured. It's not an indoctrination, it's to for them to explore and find interests or what they are good at.
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how bout those think they gonna dumb down others get a hard lesson irrefutable
How bout that instead - you smugly snarky pricks think you know it all
What was Bush's education initiative: "No Child Left Behind". What was Obama's education initiative: "Race to the Top - Common Core". The narrative is that those "disadvantaged" would be raised up.
What was the intent? Indoctrination into social activism, global warming, collective group-think, systemic racism, trust the experts-they know best like Fauci, white privilege, stupid math, reading applicance manuals not literature, Shakespeare is racist, choose your sexual identity, boys dressing like girls is fun, etc. What is the result? Wokeism, inability to think, inability to evaluate, emotional instability, no education in the great literature of the world, CO2 is bad, anyone not agreeing is racist or anti-semetic.
Many videos on the dumbing down of American education.
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Look around what is happening in reality, gender based studies, where young people are taught in the so called educational system on gender studies, which is down right pornographic influencing youg minds, when they so vulnerable...Some agreeing without parental consent to have their young bodies mutilated.
In higher education, it's all mind controlled either you comply, or you will never get position. All roads are cut off...So you end up in a service job...McDonalds are hiring.
Those that have creative and innovative ideas are stumped before they begin...Such a waste of talent and the youth of our society, is it any wonder that some turn to drugs...We have failed them.
Society has lost a generation of creativity and innovation...How can any culture or society dismiss a generation without future consequences...One that instills a nihilistic mindset and future, for our people.
Maybe getting rid of the educational structure as we know it at this time is not such a bad idea?
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That's all they do. Everything you said is protected by laws thru the state and federal level.
Judging by the comments on this topic it can't hurt getting rid of schools. They obviously aren't educating people if this website was used as an example that is.