Recent moves by President Donald Trump and his administration could signal the beginning of the end for the nearly 50-year-old Department of Education, delivering on a campaign promise to knock out the federal agency and send schooling back to the states. The department distributes billions of dollars to schools each year. It also outlines and enforces educational rights for students with disabilities and collects copious amounts of national data on education, among other things. What impact could the dismantling of ED have on students, families and schools? USA TODAY Education Reporter Zach Schermele joins The Excerpt to lay out the downstream impacts.

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