Eliminate the Department of Education
What the document says“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.”
This is the chapter's opening proposition and the frame for the rest of it. The chapter then sets out where each of the department's offices and programs should go: some block-granted to states, some moved to other departments, some eliminated. It says that to wind the department down, Congress must pass and the President sign a Department of Education Reorganization Act.
What the document actually says“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.”
Washington should do less on schools. In the end, the Department of Education should be closed.
One federal department handles schools. The book says it should be shut down. Its work would go to states or to other departments.
Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
2025-03-20 · 90 FR 13679
Shares the chapter's central aim. The chapter said plainly that eliminating the department requires Congress to pass a Department of Education Reorganization Act. An executive order cannot abolish a department created by statute, so this directs steps toward closure rather than achieving it.
The order shares the chapter's aim of closing the school department. But an order cannot close a department that a law set up. Only Congress can do that. So the order points toward closing rather than doing it.