president Donald Trump The executive order took place on Thursday to expand the scope of the Ministry of Education – a step expected to stimulate lawsuits that challenge the guidance and is likely to require the approval of Congress.
Trump has often discussed Nix's plans Ministry of Education It dates back to the campaign's course, and said in September 2024 that he wants to reduce the impact of the federal government on education “to stop the abuse of taxpayer dollars to damage American youth.”
“Everyone knows that it is true, and we have to learn our children,” Trump said on Thursday. “We do not achieve a good performance with the world of education in this country, and we haven't been for a long time.”
As a result, the realistic newspaper of the White House said in the executive order, aiming to “hand over education to families instead of bureaucrats”, and the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, went to “take all the steps necessary to facilitate the closure of the Americans and the education authority to return to the United States, while continuing to ensure the provision of effective and immovable services, and the programs that the American benefits.”
Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order to cancel the Ministry of Education
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20, 2025 to withdraw the Ministry of Education. (Swimming pool)
However, the White House press secretary Caroline Levitte told reporters earlier on Thursday that the executive will not completely reduce the agency, but “will significantly reduce.”
In addition, the remaining agency would supervise Pell and student loans that provide financial assistance to university students.
“It will not be closed,” Levit said. “Granting Bill and student loans will remain in the department in Washington, DC, but the great responsibility for educating our nation's students will return to the states.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for suspension from Fox News Digital to clarify what the remaining Ministry of Education will do. The Ministry of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, an opinion poll conducted by Gallup in February showed that the Americans' consent of education has decreased significantly in the past decade. The poll found that only 24 % of Americans are satisfied with the quality of education in the United States as of January 2025, compared to 37 % in January 2017.
President Donald Trump said in February that he hoped that the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon herself, “outside the job”, will work amid discussions to close the agency. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
The White House wandered against the state of American education and rejected the test degrees from American students.
Critics at the White House referred to the “Nation's Report Card”, which is the 2024 national evaluation of educational progress (Naep), which was issued every two years, and published on January 27. Exam tests on fourth and eighth graders, and the stagnant mathematics grades were found for the eighth respected compared to 2022, and reading lists declined in both points.
The Ministry of Education, established in 1979, seeks to improve the coordination of federal education programs, state systems and local school systems, according to its website. It also supervises student loans, financial aid programs and non -discrimination policies.
The executive authority needs Congress to sign the agency, according to Article Two of the United States Constitution. In addition, this procedure will require 60 votes to pass it in the Senate, and there are only 53 Republicans.
However, Representative Thomas Massi suggested, R-Ky. On Wednesday X, the Senate uses the budget settlement process to pass this measure, which will only require 51 votes. Massi led the legislative efforts to reduce the agency, and submitted a measure on January 31 to the Ministry of Education by December 2026.
There is also some support in the Senate for such legislation.
“I agree with President Trump that the Ministry of Education has failed its mission,” Senator Bill Cassidy, RL La, said in a statement to the digital newspaper Fox News. “Since the administration can only be closed with the approval of Congress, I will support the president's goals by providing legislation to complete this as soon as possible.”
Even without closing the agency completely, the Trump administration has moved to significantly reduce its strength. On March 11, the Ministry of Education revealed plans to reduce its employees more than 4000 people in half.
Trump still needs help in Congress in a plan to cancel the education department
The Senate confirmed that Linda McMahon would be the Minister of Education on March 3. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
If the efforts made to close the agency are to move forward, the President of the National Education Association, Becky Bringle, warned that the college will become more expensive for families and that students with disabilities will suffer.
“Trump's continuous behaviors will harm all students by sending classroom sizes, reducing work training programs, making higher education more expensive and away from the families of the middle class, and robs special education services for students with disabilities, and protecting civil rights for students,” Bringles said in a statement on Wednesday.
Likewise, the American Union of Teachers urged Congress earlier in March to oppose any executive orders to dismantle the agency. The Teachers Union referred to the NPR/PBS News/Marist poll conducted in February that more than 60 % of Americans “strongly oppose” the agency's elimination.
The executive order will guide the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, to move forward in facilitating plans to close the agency. (Getty Images)
After reports on Wednesday evening on Trump's intention to sign the directive on Thursday, American teacher Randy Winjoten announced that the union would challenge the matter.
“I see you in court,” Winjern said.
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Legal procedures that conflict Trump's actions are already ongoing. A group of public lawyers from 21 complaints in the US District Court of Massachusetts Province on March 13 after the agency's demobilization at the agency.
The lawsuit said that the efforts made to dismantle the agency, including through the demobilization of workers, is “an illegal violation of the separation of powers, and the care of the executive authority carefully that the law be executed honestly.”
Fox News Patrick Ward and Lawrence Edwards contributed to this report.
