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Trump has said he will shut down the Department of Education if he wins the White House

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Former President Donald Trump has said he would shut down the Department of Education .

The department administers federal funding to K-12 schools and manages student loan and financial aid programs.

It has an oversight role and engages in federal rulemaking.

Ending the department may not eliminate federal education funding programs.

Calls to abolish the Department of Education or merge it with another federal agency are not new.

Even when the Trump administration proposed cutting the department’s budget, the Republican -controlled Congress ultimately increased funding.

The Title I program, for example, “has proven to be relatively popular on both sides of the aisle”.