Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.
The order says Education Secretary Linda McMahon will, "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities."
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The order says Education Secretary Linda McMahon will, "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities."
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00:00After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country.
00:10But we're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs.
00:16And this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense
00:21thing to do.
00:22And it's going to work.
00:23Absolutely, it's going to work.
00:25And I can tell you from dealing with the governors and others in the state, they want it so badly.
00:31They want to take their children back and really teach their children individually.
00:37Probably the cost will be half, and the education will be maybe many, many times better.
00:44So we look forward to this.
00:47I want to just make one little personal statement.
00:50Teachers to me are among the most important people in this country, and we're going to
00:54take care of our teachers.
00:56And I don't care if they're in the union or not in the union, that doesn't matter.
01:01But we're going to take care of our teachers.
01:03And I believe the states will take actually better care of them than they are taken care
01:10of right now.
01:11They'll work all sorts of systems and even merit systems.
01:14Those great teachers are going to be maybe a little bit better rewarded, or maybe that's
01:18the way it should be.
01:19But the states are going to make that decision.
01:21But we're going to love and cherish our teachers, along with our children.
01:25And they're going to work with the parents, and they're going to work with everybody else.
01:29And it's going to be an amazing thing to watch.
01:31And it's really going to be something special.
01:33And, Linda, you're presiding over something that's so important.
01:36And we want to have our children well-educated.
01:40We want them to love going to school.
01:42We have examples of it.
01:44Look at those beautiful, bright-eyed faces.
01:47They are so smart.
01:48They're so smart.
01:49And with that, I'm going to come down, and we're going to sign a very important document,
01:58and we're going to be on our way.
01:59People have wanted to do this for many, many years, for many, many decades.
02:03And I don't know.
02:04No president ever got around to doing it.
02:06But I'm getting around to doing it.
02:08So thank you very much.
02:41I'm going to give you a little bit of a tour of my document that turned out to be very
02:43good for the country.
02:44And I said, let's use that same pen.
02:45I don't know.
02:46Is anybody superstitious?
02:47Ron, are you superstitious?
02:48Let's use that same pen.
02:49Okay.
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03:31Just the same.
03:36Very important.
03:38Big thanks, David.
03:39You've got that?
03:40Thank you much for coming.
03:41It was wonderful.
03:43Congratulations.
03:44Well done.
03:46You got that right.