Trump Administration Issues Executive Order To Dissolve Department Of Education

On March 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to dissolve the federal Department of Education, which was created by Congress in 1979. The order confirms the president’s earlier statement of plans to end the Department. The executive order does not have a timeline by which the department would be dissolved, nor does a statement issued by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon the same day. The executive order, titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States & Communities,” envisions that the department’s main functions related to elementary and secondary public education would be returned to . . .