The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. They have already started dismantling the Department of Education by gutting the Office for Civil Rights and voiding all the book ban investigations.

This E.O. would negatively impact school libraries and literacy rates among children.

The Department of Education's Innovative Approaches to Literacy grants to school libraries are the only source of federal funding to help those schools—especially chronically underfunded schools—obtain funds for school library collections. The IAL program helps to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in high-need local schools.

The move would order the Secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action and push for Congress to pass legislation to end the department.

This year, the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is simultaneously targeting the Education Department.