Such reports reinforce a policy priority from Project 2025, proposed by the Heritage Foundation, which boldly suggested that the federal Department of Education should be eliminat

U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to chip away at the agency's funding and influence.

Public schools and universities in Massachusetts and across the U.S. have less than two weeks to scrub their curriculums and outside contracts of any diversity, equity and inclusion policies or