Closing the department would require congressional approval, and it’s unlikely Trump would have sufficient support.

In 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law.Although it was not a cabinet level position, it aimed to collect educational data and statistics that ...

America’s first federal Department of Education was also its most short-lived. Signed into law in 1867 after the Civil War by president Andrew Johnson, it was demoted by Congress the very next ...

NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: the history and role of the United States Department of Education. You can partially thank the space race for the modern origins of this department. The 1957 ...

The Constitution didn’t grant Congress regulatory or spending power over education, so for most of U.S. history, education was run primarily by states, localities, churches and parents ...

The first Department of Education comes into existence on March 2, 1867. It would be made up of one commissioner, three clerks and a small budget of $15,000 - roughly $300,000 today. And it would ...