Jasmine Wright: Dismantling Education Dept. ‘Is Something that Donald Trump Repeatedly Said on the Campaign Trail’

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WRIGHT: “This is something that Donald Trump repeatedly said on the campaign trail. Now, what it calls for is taking the steps to dismantle, to the extent legally possible, the Department of Education. And in this fact sheet that I obtained last night, it talked about just how low test scores are and how they believe that this will improve test scores and improve children's outcome by putting this back to the states. It didn't basically -- it didn't outline how, but said that it would. Now, this is just not the first action, though, that we've seen this White House take on the Education Department. Already, we've seen a major reduction in force, mostly through layoffs at the department. We've seen them canceling contractors, canceling federal grants. So this is basically the latest, most wholesale action that we're seeing them take. And really, they've been working on this executive order, John, for weeks and weeks and weeks.”