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As Trump remakes the federal government, he has assailed the department as wasteful and responsible for spreading “woke” ideas such as programs to support diversity, equity and inclusion and ...

It suggested sending oversight of programs for kids with disabilities and low-income children first to the Department of Health and Human Services, before eventually phasing out the funding and ...

Trump on Friday said that “special needs funding” for students will be overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency funnels more than $18 billion in supplemental funding ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department ... on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ...

United States President Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise to begin shuttering the Department of Education, though his efforts are likely to face court challenges and constitutional ...

President Trump took dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a four-and-a-half-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 ...

Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) asked after McMahon said she could see the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act going back to the Department of Health and Human Services. American ...

Trump said his administration wants to shut down the Department of Education “as quickly as possible,” adding “we want to return our students to the states,” though it would ultimately ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department ... the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and ...

On Thursday afternoon, the president did, in fact, sign an executive order designed to start the process of closing the department. NBC News reported: President Donald Trump signed an executive ...