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A majority of registered voters back closing the Department of Education when they learn key details of how it would work, a shocking poll found.

When asked about shuttering the Department of Education and given no other details, 51% oppose that, compared to 38% who support it, according to a survey commissioned by the Yes Every Kid Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes school choice and is supported by the Koch network.

But when presented with key details of ending the department, such as preserving K-12 funding and merging important elements of the department with other agencies, the opposition inverts, with 56% in support and 30% opposed, per the poll.

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"Returning education to the states means rightsizing the federal role in education by removing unnecessary red tape and micromanagement by DC while maintaining critical funding for students with disabilities and low-income schools and continuing to protect students' civil rights."

After being presented with even more details about how eliminating the department would unfold, including a gradual phase-out and protections for students with disabilities, support jumped to 59%, with 30% opposed.

The additional information included stats about how student reading and math scores have declined over recent decades under the Department of Education's watch.

Abolishing the Department of Education, which was first established in 1979, has been a top priority for President Trump during his second term.

However, it would take an act of Congress to fully dissolve the department. Republicans lack the votes in the Senate, where it would need to clear the 60-vote filibuster — something that would require Democratic support.

As a result, Trump, 79, has taken executive action directing McMahon to wind down the department to the "maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law."

Democrats have railed against Trump's plan to dismantle the department, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries saying in March that Democrats will defeat the president's mission in the halls of Congress and in the courtroom.

"Shutting down the Department of Education will harm millions of children in our nation's public schools, their families and hardworking teachers. Class sizes will soar, educators will be fired, special education programs will be cut and college will get even more expensive," Jeffries said at the time.

"Congress created the Department of Education and only an act of Congress can eliminate it," he added in the media statement. "We will stop this malignant Republican scheme in the House of Representatives and in the Courts."

The federal government just emerged from the longest shutdown in U.S. history, at 43 days, with McMahon authoring an op-ed claiming the shutdown exposed how "little the Department of Education will be missed."

"The 43-day shutdown, which came smack in the middle of the fall semester, showed every family how unnecessary the federal education bureaucracy is to their children's education. Students kept going to class. Teachers continued to get paid. There were no disruptions in sports seasons or bus routes."