The Department of Education (DoED) has made numerous changes and decisions in Washington, D.C, over the past eight months, impacting students and teachers around the U.S, such as cutting funding for schools, removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.), and have highly impacted students who are in low-income communities, have already greenlighted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in schools across America, and have many other negative effects on future leaders and the people educating these students to be the best they can be in life. 

   On March 20th, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order calling for the disassembly of DoED as an attempt to have the states control education.

   “Today’s Executive Order is a history-making action by Trump to free future generations of American students and forge opportunities for their success,” said Linda McMahon. As of September ninth, 2025, many branches of the DoED are scheduled to be dismantled soon. History teacher Abby Tanner stays informed about such topics, especially due to the DoED’s cut of funding and budgets for educators across the United States in July of 2025.

   “I think it just concerns me about teachers, maybe not having the same avenues to be the best at what they could do. Furthermore, the Department of Education has not provided many guidelines,” Said Tanner, “It’s been more related to presidential executive orders in terms of what’s changing rather than giving guidance.” 

   Looking over the decisions made recently, students can only hope that the decisions the Department of Education makes in the next few years take a U-turn for the better and improve students’ school life.