As President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many education professionals are closely following his plans for the Department of Education. Trump has vowed to dismantle the agency as part of his pledge to address the bureaucracy of D.

In order to scrap the agency, the incoming Republican president would need congressional approval.

When Donald Trump told Elon Musk one of his first acts as president would be to “close the Department of Education, move education back to the states,” he was invoking a GOP promise that goes back to President Ronald Reagan and the department’s founding.