Sri Lanka, March 25 -- The American school education system is in the midst of a major crisis. On March 20, President Donald Trump ordered the closure of the Federal Department of Education saying that education is a devolved State subject and that there is no reason why Washington should spend so much on it and maintain an army of staff to administer it.

He called the department "a big con job" and said he told Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive he tapped to be Education Secretary, that he wanted her to carry out closing the department.

"Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job,'" Trump said to McMahon. Before signing the Executive Order, he had ordered the pruning of its staff by half.



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