Trump’s Education Department: From Federal Overreach to Musical Chairs

KEY POINTS

•The Department of Education started dismantling under Trump in 2025 by offloading major grants like Title I to other federal agencies.
•This agency's roots stretch back to 1867, when President Andrew Johnson created then quickly demoted it into the Department of Interior.
•The federal role in education has long been contested over concerns of overreach, with a history of policies including Native American boarding schools.
•In 2024, President Biden issued a formal apology for abuses in government-funded Native American boarding schools that assimilated children harshly.

Since 1867, when Andrew Johnson dreamed up a baby Department of Education only to promptly drop it into the Department of Interior like a hot potato, America’s federal education saga has been a wild ride. Flash-forward to 2025, and Trump’s administration is boldly repackaging massive Title I grants intended for low-income schools—imagine handing your homework to a stranger—while pushing to dismantle the whole department. Meanwhile, Joe Biden apologized in 2024 for decades of traumatizing Native American boarding schools that forced kids into European shoes, renamed and cropped like bad haircuts at a 19th-century barbershop. It’s history wrapped in political zigzags, broken promises, and bureaucratic musical chairs—who’s holding what, and why?—with federal funding spinning the education carousel since Jamestown.

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Mockingbird News

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Nothing screams progress like juggling billions in school grants like hot potatoes while erasing federal education, because America always loves a plot twist in its bureaucracy sitcom.

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