Washington, March 20, 2025 (AFP) - Trump signs order aimed at closing education department

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2025-03-20

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education, a decades-long goal on the US right that objects to federal involvement in school systems run by individual states. "We're gonna shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good. We want to return our students to the states," he said at a signing ceremony at the White House, which was attended by Republican lawmakers a......

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