The president’s long-awaited order to dismantle the Education Department stopped short of eliminating the agency, but it nevertheless reduces its role.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools,

Local school officials say they don't expect the order to end the U.S. Department of Education or most of the department's funding.