States and communities invest 90% of public education funds and shoulder most responsibility. The Department of Education lingers in the background.

A White House fact sheet on President Donald Trump's executive order instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to overhaul the Department of Education.

Local school officials say they don't expect the order to end the U.S. Department of Education or most of the department's funding.

President Donald Trump on March 20 signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, keeping good on a campaign promise to target the federal agency.

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Trump has issued an executive order to close the Department of Education, a move that will reshape federal education policy and affect America's ...

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the White House initiating action to “begin eliminating the Department of Education, once and for all.”

President Donald Trump issued Executive Order entitled Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to facilitate his longstanding goal of eliminating the Department of Education. While the order recognizes it would take an act of

He has accused the department of “indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material.”