US President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday to start dismantling the Department of Education, fulfilling an election campaign pledge and a long-held dream of American conservatives.

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US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at "eliminating" the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free ...

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Trump accused the Education Department of being ‘wasteful’ and polluted by liberal ideology as he moves to advance a campaign promise to dismantle the agency. US President Donald Trump signed ...