Trump is scrapping Obama ed groundwork one policy at a time — And there’s likely more to come

In October 2015, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said if he was elected president, he would consider eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. While that hasn’t happened since he took office in January 2017, his administration has gutted or changed much of the Obama-era policies and guidelines that previously defined the K-12 sphere, and more changes seem to be on the way. Here’s a running list of pieces of Obama-era K-12 education policy dismantled under Trump, along with those at risk of being severed next.  READ MORE