The Department of Education will issue an initiative that includes suggestions on how to improve reading, AI, and classroom discipline in an attempt to bolster student “excellence,” Secretary Linda McMahon told the New York Post in an interview published Sunday.

“My goal is then to put together a toolkit which we can deliver to states …  to say, look, this is what’s worked here. This is how it’s worked,” McMahon said, adding that the recommendations will include contacts for the educators who implemented the successful strategies and can help other schools “take advantage of those best practices.”

Even though President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the majority of the agency and give education “back to the states” with less interference from the federal government, McMahon said one important goal from the federal level is to instill a culture of “excellence” for the next generation.

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