As the president-elect works on filling out his cabinet, there is a lot of speculation — and very few answers — about his plans for education policy. Our education reporter, Lindsey Christ, has more.

Education was not a big issue in the presidential race and now that Donald Trump is headed to the White House little is known about his plans for the nation's 55 million students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

"We have bits and pieces of policy but really nothing concrete that gives us a strong sense of where he's going to be going," said Beth Akers, with the Manhattan Institute.

During the campaign, Trump spoke in generalities.

"There won't be education from Washington DC," Trump said. "There will education locally. The love of parents. The love of these people that love their children and are in the area. That's what we're going to do. We'll have school boards and we'll have local."

Trump often said he wanted to abolish the federal Department of Education. But Akers from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, said he won't be able to do that any time soon.

"I think it's just unrealistic to think of that as something that Trump could accomplish, we have a lot resting policy-wise on the Department of Education currently and it would be a tremendous upset to those systems to make that happen," Akers said. "I think we need a lot more discussion about how to accomplish it before it could even be considered as a realistic policy goal."

Trump also promised to abolish the Common Core learning standards.

"So we're getting rid of Common Core," Trump said. "We're taking Common Core, it's going to be gone."

But that's already a state-by-state decision, not something the president can accomplish.

Trump says he wants to put $20 billion toward giving parents the option of school choice — and get states to contribute another $110 billion. Though again, it is unclear how exactly he would accomplish that.

"So we're going local," Trump said. "It's going to be great. We're to spend less money."

The most pressing question now is who Trump will pick as Secretary of Education. One name floated is New York charter school leader, Eva Moskowitz, though sources familiar with the former Democratic City Councilwoman say they would be surprised if she took on that role.