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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Episode: How Dead Is the Department of Education?
Description: If Trump follows through and successfully shuts down the Department of Education, what does America stand to lose?
Guest: Laura Meckler, national education writer for The Washington Post and author of Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.
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