President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education took a major step forward this month after the White House reassigned the agency’s special education and civil rights programs to other federal agencies. The Trump administration says the adjustments will maximize efficiency by pairing programs with the departments best suited for their execution. Critics, however, claim the reassignments are an illegal effort to circumvent congressional funding challenges and say they will harm America’s children and the country’s educational prospects.
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