President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools,

The White House says an executive order dismantling the agency will improve education for US students and save money.

The president’s long-awaited order to dismantle the Education Department ended up being more figurative than literal, as many of the agency’s core functions will remain intact.