President-elect Donald Trump wants to close the Department of Education. This article examines how a closure would impact different communities.

Donald Trump has pledged to “send all education work and needs back to the States.” Here’s what we know about his proposal to transform the education system.

"One thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C.," President-elect Trump vowed in 2023.

In order to scrap the agency, the incoming Republican president would need congressional approval.

Though Trump spent most of the past year insisting that he knew nothing about the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership,” broadly discussed as “Project 2025”—and Heritage’s influence in the new White House will certainly be contested by other factions in the MAGAverse—it’s clear that the radically conservative 900-page document is providing a portion of the policy blueprint for his second term.

The U.S. Department of Education provides roughly 10% of funding to Colorado schools. DENVER — President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, raising questions about the future of school funding across the nation.