Trump signs executive order to dismantle Department of Education

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to facilitate his longstanding goal of eliminating the Department of Education.

While the order recognizes it would take an act of Congress to completely shutter the department, Trump directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to do all she can to achieve its end.  

“Today, we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making,” he said at a signing ceremony at the East Room of the White House that included...