By: Tim Walker, NEA Today Senior Writer
Published: February 4, 2025
In a widely expected move, President Donald Trump will at any minute issue an executive order—or a series of orders—aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education (ED), while also urging Congress to abolish it outright. Eliminating the department, which was established by President Jimmy Carter and Congress in 1980, due to the advocacy of NEA and others, has been a key focus of Trump’s anti-public education rhetoric, as a candidate and now as president.
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