President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday calling on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education.

The order imposes newly confirmed education secretary Linda McMahon as “to take all necessary steps to promote the closure of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education.” According to In an earlier report from USA Today. Trump is an outspoken critic of the department as the country’s educational state failed, with test scores plunging and many schools covered in radical ideology.

The plan aims to send education back to the state and provide parents with greater autonomy with their children’s education. Services provided by the department will not be interrupted, the order said.

“Today we are doing very historic behavior, and it took place over 45 years,” Trump said in his signature. “For a while, I will sign an executive order to begin elimination of the Federal Department of Education.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters just before signing, several “critical functions” of the department remained in place, the White House press chief told reporters. The department itself has been significantly reduced, and “the great responsibility of educating our country’s students will be returned to the state.”

“The Ministry of Education will be much smaller than it is today,” Levitt said. I said. “When it comes to student loans and Pell grants, they still run out of the Department of Education, but we don’t have to spend more than $3 trillion in decades on a sector that has clearly failed with its original intention to educate students.”

“With today’s executive order, President Trump is submitting his promise to dismantle the inefficient and bureaucratically implemented U.S. Department of Education and return education to the states where it is legitimate,” Dr. Keri D. Ingraham, a senior fellow at the American Center for the Discovery Institute’s American Center, told the Daily Color News Foundation. “It is our country’s historic day that we are one step closer to the goal of educational freedom for all families across the country.”

in statement Issued shortly after confirmation on March 3, McMahon outlined the education department’s “final mission,” saying it “is not functioning as intended,” and affirmed cooperation with Trump’s plan to shut it down.

“My vision is consistent with the President’s vision: to bring education back to the state and enable all parents to choose a superior education for their children,” writes McMahon. “American education can be the greatest in the world. It should not be corrupted by political ideology, special interests, or unfair discrimination. Both parents, teachers and students are worth more.”

Trump is long Proposed The division even came up with ideas during his first term when he told Fox News host Sean Hannity in 2016 that the division was “large” and “may be reduced to a large extent.”

There was a department Established By Congress as a cabinet-level body in 1980, the President would need 60 votes in the Senate and Congressional approval to eliminate it completely. Proponents of its abolition argue that it has not served its intended purpose of “to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by promoting educational excellence.” According to On the official website.

“Education should focus on our children. But too often, it is hijacked by people who are interested in moving their agenda forward rather than serving the best interests of students,” ACE Scholarships CEO Norton Rainey said in a statement. “For 40 years, the Department of Education’s K-12 efforts have been a waste of distraction at best. Now is the time for a new approach to putting children first, by increasing choices on behalf of Washington bureaucrats and empowering parents.”

Under the Biden administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has poured over $100,000,000 into K-12 school DEI efforts, aiming for a funding project aimed at “LGBTQ inclusion” that has “an embedded anti-racial and anti-attacks.” Upon taking office, Trump quickly removed some of the radical topics from schools and signed a series of executive orders banning key racial theories, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and gender ideology from federally funded schools.

Student test scores reached some of the lowest levels recorded in the US, according to a January report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A third of eighth graders failed to reach the NAEP reading assessment benchmark in 2024, the largest percentage ever recorded, with 40% of fourth grade students below NAEP reading proficiency, testing at the largest percentage since 2002. (Related: The rising levels of English-speaking students may be driving reading test scores across the country to the ground)

“The Department of Education does nothing to improve students’ academic outcomes. We have been arrested entirely by the teachers’ union that promotes the left-wing agenda,” Stephanie Lundquist Alora, the leader and mother of the Independent Women’s Network Chapter of Fairfax County, Virginia, told DCNF. “That dissolution will not come soon. The minimal function that bloated bureaucracy does to serve the children of our nation can be moved to other departments.”

recently Opinion survey Parents’ advocacy education revealed that parents were overwhelmingly unhappy with their educational status, with over 50% of parents helping to reduce the size and influence of the federal sector, and over three-quarters of parents helping to control more sectors in the nation. Less than half of the parents who responded to the polls expressed satisfaction with the way the Ministry of Education is currently using its resources.

Christine Truyen, a mother of three, told the Daily Color News Foundation in January before Trump returned to the White House. “In K-12, it means parents and local school boards, not Washington, D.C.’s bureaucrats, so the federal government will step down, but local parents will hopefully step up.”

“We have Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who understands the importance of not getting in the way of the federal government, and I look forward to working with her and taking her behind the scenes of students, families, educators and taxpayers.” “In conclusion, the Department of Education can’t bring out results for American students, and today’s actions by the Trump administration will help ensure that young people in our country are placed first.”

The White House and the Department of Education did not respond to DCNF’s request for comment.

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