{"id":94884,"date":"2025-03-21T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=94884"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:18:20","slug":"trump-signs-order-closing-education-department-to-maximum-extent-appropriate-modan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/03\/21\/trump-signs-order-closing-education-department-to-maximum-extent-appropriate-modan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order closing Education Department to \u2018maximum extent appropriate\u2019 [Modan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/trump-issues-march-2025-executive-order-gut-close-education-department\/743148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump signs order closing Education Department to \u2018maximum extent appropriate\u2019<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Naaz Modan<br \/>\n<em>The directive comes on the heels of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon\u2019s decision to gut half the agency as its \u201cfinal mission.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon ordered U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to \u201ctake all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,\u201d\u00a0marking the boldest\u00a0push from the president\u00a0to shut down the agency since its establishment under the Carter administration over four decades ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Trump also said prior to the signing that he intends to disperse the department\u2019s core functions \u2014 such as Pell Grants, Title I funding, and providing funding and resources for students with disabilities \u2014 to other parts of the government.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also related see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iblnews.org\/trump-signed-order-aimed-at-shutting-down-the-u-s-department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump Signed Order Aimed at Shutting Down the U.S. Department of Education<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from iblnews.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump signs order closing Education Department to \u2018maximum extent appropriate\u2019 &#8212; from highereddive.com by Naaz Modan The directive comes on the heels of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon\u2019s decision to gut half the agency as its \u201cfinal mission.\u201d President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon ordered U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to \u201ctake all necessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,7,285,560,66,89,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-legislation-legislatures","category-parents-guardians","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94887,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94884\/revisions\/94887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}