U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on March 20 to begin the steps for dismantling the Department of Education.
Along with his newly sworn-in Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Trump said the department had failed in its mission, calling it an overly bureaucratic system burdening schools with regulations and paperwork.
“We’re going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible,” Trump said before signing the order.
Trump argued that the United States spends more money than most other countries on education, yet its maths performance ranks among the lowest and has been declining for decades….