President Trump, who has called the Department of Education wasteful and polluted with liberal ideology, yesterday signed an executive order that significantly dismantles it.
The goal is to give power over state education back to the individual states, limiting the federal government's input and increasing individual liberties.
"Promises made, promises kept," says Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty. "President Trump has been a true champion of parental rights, and this is just one more step that he's taking to put parents back in the driver's seat when it comes to their children's education."
Citing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which shows that 70% of eighth graders are below proficient in reading and 72% are below proficient in math, the order declares, "The federal education bureaucracy is not working."
"Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them," it reads.
National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle, however, claims Trump's continued actions "will hurt all students."
Justice says one constant since Trump took office has been the opposition against him.
"It's been shocking to see Democrats caring more about shutting down the Department of Education than they do about the fact that nearly two-thirds of children in America's public schools aren't reading on grade level," she tells American Family News. "The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the NEA have vowed to take the president to court over shutting down the Department of Education."
As a parent who has long endured the unions' undue influence in her children's lives and education, Justice says, "The fact that they're upset is a good thing."
She looks forward to seeing the AFT, NEA, and their Democratic allies in court, where they will have to account for failing to teach children how to read, how to write, and how to do math – essentially preventing them from being successful in life.
Since its founding in 2021, Moms for Liberty has fought for parental rights, and Justice says closing down the Department of Education is one way to reinforce them.
Eliminating the department completely, however, would take an act of Congress, which created it in 1979.
