US president Donald Trump announced a new supplemental priority for federal education grants that aims to promote "patriotic education" across American schools.
Trump will instruct his education secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary measures to facilitate the shutdown of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in an interview with CNN said that there has been an increase in complaints lodged with the Department's Office of Civil Rights, particularly following the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in the previous month.
Washington [US], October 19 (ANI/Sputnik): President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order to establish an initiative and a commission within the US Department of Education to advance educational and economic opportunities for Black Americans.