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Trump signs order aimed at closing US education department
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at shutting down the Education Department in the East Room of the White house in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
US President Donald Trump signs an order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education, a decades-long goal on the US right that objects to federal involvement in school systems run by individual states.
“We’re gonna shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It’s doing us no good. We want to return our students to the states,” he said at a signing ceremony at the White House, which was attended by Republican lawmakers and a group of schoolchildren.
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