Week in Review: The Beginning of the End for the Education Department?

The Department of Education May Be Gone, Finally

News came out last week that the Trump administration is stepping up efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. We’ve already seen a large number of staff reductions in the department, which the Supreme Court authorized last summer, and Trump moved to end DEI programming within days of his inauguration. This next move aims to finish the job, mainly by farming out the department’s mandated activities such as the federal student loan progra…

Department of Education Begins Its “Final Mission”

When Linda McMahon was named Secretary of Education, her stated purpose was to work herself out of a job by shutting down the Department of Education (ED). The White House announced this week that she might be on the verge of doing just that. For decades, Concerned Women for America (CWA) has looked forward to […]

Week in review: The beginning of the end for the Education Department?

We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from a look at the latest enrollment news to Texas State upholding the firing of a professor over his viral comments.

Dismantling the Department of Education would harm children with disabilities

As a Deaf person and national disability access leader, I am alarmed by recent efforts to weaken or dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Education Department dismantling sees study abroad initiatives transferred to State

Under the new agreement, the programs will be brought under the authority of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the primary government agency administering educational exchange programs.   Announcing the news on November 18, the government said the State Department was “best positioned to tailor foreign language education programs with the national security and foreign policy priorities of the United States”…