Spirit of Jefferson – Last Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling her department. This long-expected and contentious move is another extension of the Trump Administration’s sweeping federal cuts, which, in this case, aims to “return authority over education to the States and local communities.”
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“We’re going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,” Trump said during an event at the White House where he signed the order. “And this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it’s a common sense thing to do, and it’s going to work, absolutely.”
The order brought more turmoil to the Education Department, and has various stakeholders scrambling to fight against the possible abolition of the department, including those in West Virginia.
