Since President Trump took office, staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and he has been mulling an executive order to close the agency.

Staffing at the Education Department has been cut in half, and President Trump’s mulling an executive order to close the agency. The moves are sending states like Minnesota scrambling for funding which Gov.

As President Donald Trump and administration officials are preparing to tear down swaths of the Department of Education, they’re also ramping up the department’s efforts to exert control over schools to an unprecedented level in pursuit of their right-wing vision for education.