The Education Department is to be dismantled. Here’s what it does.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Education Department, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon tasked to facilitate the closure and return authority to states. The department’s financial role in distributing federal money to schools and colleges, managing student loans, and overseeing services for students would be redistributed if closed. Trump has criticized Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts and shifted civil rights enforcement to prioritize antisemitism complaints and investigations into alleged racial discrimination in education.

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