OPINION: The Dismantling of the Department of Education

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20, 2025 to dismantle the Department of Education. Many Conservatives believe that education should be in the state's control and not the country. Due to the recent liberal ideas being brought into the classroom the conservatives believe this is messing with the educational system. The point of having a department of education is to ensure that students can fund their education with loans, and funds public K-12 schools. Before the inauguration of Donald Trump there were 4,133 workers in the Department of Education and after the inauguration 600 people resigned. As of March 11 2,183 are remaining at the department. Linda McMahon says that America has “a system that is failing them”. Due to students reading and math scores have not changed and only decreased since 2022. A 2024 poll was conducted by All4Ed and 58 percent of the participants responded that they did not want it to be abolished.  Trump has assured the public that the sources that the Department of educations distributes to systems will be “preserved and redistributed to various and other agencies”. 

Dismantling the Department of Education does not seem like a good idea to me. I am not confident that Trump will fully find a way to support the education crisis we have in America. Especially with the dismantling of DEI this will affect scholarship help, loans, and loan forgiveness. Linda McMahon is the person who was appointed by President Trump to handle the Department of Education which is interesting. Linda McMahon is married to Vince McMahon and he owns the WWE corporation. President Trump is a member of the WWE hall of fame. So it makes sense with that affiliation that he puts Linda in charge. School is meant to be a place where children learn how to function in society. It should not be spent worrying about how to pay for it. There should be a system in place where the education across the country can be at a high standard for all children, not just some children.