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WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥斅�聽signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the聽, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that鈥檚 been a longtime target of conservatives.

Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979. Republicans said they will introduce legislation to achieve that, while Democrats have quickly lined up to oppose the idea.

The order says the education secretary will, 鈥渢o the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.鈥�

It offers no detail on how that work will be carried out or where it will be targeted, though the White House said the agency will retain certain critical functions.

Trump said his administration will close the department beyond its 鈥渃ore necessities,鈥� preserving its responsibilities for Title I funding for low-income schools, Pell grants and money for children with disabilities.

After President Trump signed the order, Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal 鈥淭he Trump Administration has made it no secret that one of their key priorities is to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.鈥�

鈥淲hat we are seeing in Washington, D.C. is a cruel chaos that has been intentionally designed to promote a school privatization agenda and undo a 60-year commitment to equity and civil rights that lies at the heart of our democratic system, Reykdal said. 鈥淚n other states, that agenda has led to greater divides between student groups along socioeconomic and racial lines.鈥�

The White House said earlier Thursday the department will continue to manage federal student loans, but the order appears to say the opposite. It says the Education Department doesn鈥檛 have the staff to oversee its $1.6 trillion loan portfolio and 鈥渕ust return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America鈥檚 students.鈥�

At a signing ceremony, Trump blamed the department for America鈥檚 lagging academic performance and said states will do a better job.

鈥淚t鈥檚 doing us no good,鈥� he said.

Already, Trump鈥檚 Republican administration has been gutting the agency. Its workforce is being聽, and there have been聽聽to the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation鈥檚 academic progress.