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The executive order marks a decisive blow to what many philo-educators see as an overly bureaucratic and ideologically driven federal apparatus. The leaked draft instructs the Education Secretary to "take all necessary steps" to close the department, emphasizing the goal of reversing nearly five decades of federal involvement. The move has been characterized as “the unthinkable,” designed to return control of education to individual states, empowering parents with school choice, and ending federal funding linked to policies rooted in critical race theory, ethnomathematics, and woke classroom practices.