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The Straits Times Article Rating

Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says

Mar 20, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Prior to the department's creation, education was part of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which operated from 1953 to 1979.
57% : The Education Department's defenders say it is crucial to keeping public education standards high and accuse Republicans of trying to push for-profit education.
46% : "Federal government control of education has failed students, parents and teachers," the White House said in its summary.
44% : Mr Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have attempted to shut down government programmes and institutions such as the US Agency for International Development without congressional approval, but abolishing the Department of Education would be Mr Trump's first attempt to shut down a Cabinet-level agency.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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