{"id":36597,"date":"2025-03-20T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/what-is-the-us-department-of-education-and-what-does-it-do\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:06:09","slug":"what-is-the-us-department-of-education-and-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/what-is-the-us-department-of-education-and-what-does-it-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the US Department of Education and what does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo the federal department on Thursday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/20\/trump-executive-order-education-department\">has taken<\/a> the overwhelming step of undoing the Department of Education on Thursday by signing an executive order to dismantle the agency in charge of the country\u2019s national education policy.<\/p>\n<p>With the stroke of a pen, Trump fulfills a campaign promise he made all the way back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/20\/what-is-department-education-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo the federal department on Thursday Donald Trump has taken the overwhelming step of undoing the Department of Education on Thursday by signing an executive order to dismantle the agency in charge of the country\u2019s national education policy. With the stroke of a pen, Trump fulfills a campaign &#8230; <a title=\"What is the US Department of Education and what does it do?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/what-is-the-us-department-of-education-and-what-does-it-do\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is the US Department of Education and what does it do?\">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-36597","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\/36597","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=36597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}