Trump Signs Order Eliminating Education Department
President Donald Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education...
Trump signed an order declaring that “the experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars — and the unaccountable bureaucracy those programs and dollars support — has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our families.”
“When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times Editorial Board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right — absolutely right,” Trump said in a speech before signing the order...
The order instructs the Education Secretary “to 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 while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.”
“Consistent with the Department of Education’s authorities, the Secretary of Education shall ensure that the allocation of any Federal Department of Education funds is subject to rigorous compliance with Federal law and Administration policy, including the requirement that any program or activity receiving Federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination obscured under the label ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology,” the order reads...
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What’s the Real Reason Behind the Left’s Freak-Out About the Department of Education? by Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal, 23 March 2025:
... President Trump didn’t order the demolishing of schools—he ordered the Department of Education to begin the process of turning its functions over to state education departments and to other federal agencies...
It does, however, represent a serious threat to the big national teachers unions, and those teachers unions are part of the Left’s funding apparatus.
America’s two largest teachers unions—the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association—are notorious for bankrolling Democrats and leftist causes. In the 2024 presidential election cycle, NEA gave $3.2 million to Democrats and $29.2 million to liberal groups, according to Open Secrets. The AFT gave $2.8 million to Democrats and $4.4 million to liberal groups.
As I expose in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” these unions also help to bankroll the leftist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration, using the federal bureaucracy to force woke ideology on the American people...
The Left may also fear that if the NEA and AFT lose some of their power, the money they funnel to Democrats and to leftist causes may also begin to dry up.
The Left's Dark Money and Influence Network:
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Utah Passes Historic Bill Installing ‘Western Great Books’ At All State Universities, by Joy Pullmann, The Federalist, 25 March 2025:
... Senate Bill 334 requires “every student at Utah State University to take a full year-and-a-half course in Western civilization and an additional one-semester course in American civics,” writes Stanley Kurtz, co-author of a model bill inspiring this law...
Currently, students at most American universities take essentially no real core curriculum, depriving America’s leaders of common knowledge and their cultural heritage. Over the last century, leftists replaced core curricula in higher education and K-12 schooling with identity politics-laden courses that undermine academic excellence and promote anti-American prejudices. This is a key contributor to the decline of American Christianity and increased affiliation with the Democrat Party among those with college degrees.
Kurtz the law “will be a game changer nationally.” SB 334 specifies that the new year-and-a-half of core study will focus “predominantly” on Western great books by authors such as Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and William Shakespeare...