{"id":36176,"date":"2025-03-16T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/why-does-trump-want-to-close-the-department-of-education\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:15:30","slug":"why-does-trump-want-to-close-the-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/why-does-trump-want-to-close-the-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Trump want to close the Department of Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is on his way to fulfill another campaign promise of dismantling the Department of Education. The battle over federal involvement in local education is one that\u2019s been decades in the making, but what exactly do these recent cuts mean for students and their schooling? NBC\u2019s Rehema Ellis reports in this week\u2019s Sunday Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is on his way to fulfill another campaign promise of dismantling the Department of Education. The battle over federal involvement in local education is one that\u2019s been decades in the making, but what exactly do these recent cuts mean for students and their schooling? NBC\u2019s Rehema Ellis reports in this week\u2019s Sunday &#8230; <a title=\"Why does Trump want to close the Department of Education?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/why-does-trump-want-to-close-the-department-of-education\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why does Trump want to close the Department of Education?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}