Tracking Trump: His actions on education

Photo caption: President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in the Oval Office. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Articles by the Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report – February 19, 2025 (updated November 19, 2025).

President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal government’s role in education since taking office for the second time. He directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shrink the agency she oversees, while other cuts have been initiated by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Shuttering the Education Department entirely would take an act of Congress, but the administration laid off about half of its workers, floated plans to shift its work to other departments, and cut millions of dollars for education research, teacher-training programs and other projects funded through agencies as varied as the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services, among others. […]

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