This includes a proposal to “close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and to send all education work and needs back to the States.” Threats to eliminate the Department of Education are not new. It would take congressional approval to ...

We want to close the federal Department of Education.”  But fulfilling that promise is easier said than done. Dismantling the agency – which provides billions of dollars each year to low-income public schools and billions more to help millions of Americans pay for college – would likely require the support of congressional Democrats,