What is the Department of Education - and can Trump dismantle it?
The president has pledged to eliminate the federal agency that oversees the US education system.
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The move would deliver on a promise he made on the campaign trail.
Trump plans to end some of the department's programmes, while others would be housed within different parts of the government, according to US media reports.
The Republican president will direct his newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department" based on "the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law", according to a draft of the order seen by the Wall Street Journal.
Abolishing the department entirely requires an act of Congress, however.
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