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Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday, March 16, 2025.

Recent moves by President Donald Trump and his administration could signal the beginning of the end for the nearly 50-year-old Department of Education,

delivering on a campaign promise to knock out the federal agency and send schooling back to the states.

The department distributes billions of dollars to schools each year.

It also outlines and enforces educational rights for students with disabilities

and collects copious amounts of national

data on education, among other things. What impact could the dismantling of ed have on students,

families, and schools? For more on that, I'm now joined by USA Today Education reporter,

Zach Shermaley. Thanks for joining me, Zach. Thanks so much for having me.

Zach, you wrote that millions of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and support staff

may be wondering what does this mean for us? First, tell us about the recent moves and why this

could signal the end of the department. Well, the Trump administration announced that it was going to be reducing the workforce

of the federal education department by about 50%, which is really significant.

This is a workforce reduction at the department, which has a hand in overseeing schools across the

country and makes policies and distributes funds from Congress that touch the lives really of

tons of American students and families, really anybody who has a stake in the education system

in this country, those workforce reductions

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