On Thursday, the US president signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
Surrounded by children sitting behind classroom desks, Donald Trump sought to fulfill a campaign promise on Thursday March 20 at the White House to dismantle the Department of Education.
For the time being, the American president is devitalizing this administration, half of whose staff has already been eliminated with departure plans, by returning a large part of its prerogatives to the states.
Donald Trump has highlighted the mediocre results of national assessments in middle school. The executive order cites the 2024 NAEP (national assessment of educational progress) assessment, a program for evaluating progress in the US education system, according to which 70% of 4th graders fall below the level of fluent reading in English and 72% below that of required proficiency in math.
