President Donald Trump finally made good on his long-standing pledge to go after the Department of Education. On March 20, he issued an executive order instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to, to “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
The order included several explicit desires: restoring local control where possible, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and combating DEI — in his words, “illegal discrimination obscured under the label ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology.”
These are laudable goals, putting
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