On a special episode (first released on March 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Are schools providing the best education possible for all their students? This episode's guest argues that the U.S.

Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes in the past six months since President Trump's inauguration. There's the Department of Education itself, which Trump has vowed to close. (SOUNDBITE ...

In March, Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down the Department of Education, though it would take an act of Congress to actually close it. In the meantime, the department is taking ...