Cyberzenhub.com – As millions of American students laced up their backpacks and walked back into classrooms across the country on Monday, the administration chose to frame the occasion not around learning outcomes or classroom resources, but around the shrinking of the very federal agency tasked with overseeing K-12 policy. President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon gathered in the Rose Garden on the afternoon of August 24, 2026, for a “Back to School” ceremony whose centerpiece was a catalogue of what the White House calls victories in unwinding the Department of Education and redirecting its functions toward state-level control and private-sector alternatives.

The event, which drew supporters of school-choice initiatives and parental-rights advocates alongside the two principals, was structured less as a celebration of the academic year ahead and more as a progress report on the department’s dissolution. Trump outlined provisions of the Working Families Tax Cuts Act that…