Trump has said he wants school policy to be left to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that would look like.

Larry Wexler is enjoying a hard-earned retirement, but if you ask him about his former life, he beams. “I had the greatest job in the world,” said Wexler, of Maryland. For more than three decades, the former public school teacher worked at the U.

President Donald Trump says he wants to “dismantle” the U.S. Department of Education. What would that mean for America’s schools? The answer depends on whether to take Trump literally­, and assume everything the department does would cease,