by Michelle Diament | February 11, 2025
“As President Donald Trump doubles down on his pledge to shutter the U.S. Department of Education, the ramifications for students with disabilities could be severe, advocates say.
Trump says that the Education Department is the next target in his administration’s efforts to weed out wasteful spending. Recent reports indicate that the White House is considering an executive order designed to dismantle the department and the president, who has said he wants to close the agency, told reporters that he’s directed Linda McMahon, his nominee for education secretary, to “put herself out of a job.”
While experts say that closing the agency would require an act of Congress, advocates are warning that any efforts to weaken the Education Department could have an outsized impact on the nation’s 7.5 million special education students.”