^{The Bottom Line} Returning Education to the States

On Thursday, President Trump announced from the East Room in the White House, “We are going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs. And this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it is a common sense thing to do, and it is going to work. Absolutely, it is going to work.”

“Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making… I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all.” Continuing, the president said, “Everyone knows it is right. And we have to get our children educated.”

Since taking office, 50% of the positions at the department have been cut, which is a reduction of roughly 2,000 federal bureaucrats. Yet, the president was clear that Pell Grants, Title I funding, and resources for children with disabilities and special needs “will be fully preserved” and “redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them.”

Despite the fearmongering of the opposition, these programs that serve students are not going away. But instead of being housed at the federal level, which has proven ineffective and full of bureaucracy, it is going to be returned to the states, where education in our country was designed to be governed. It is not true that students won’t be served or that funding won’t be there. The president is giving local control back, empowering parents, and ensuring that teaching is a high-value profession in the future.

President Trump spoke specifically about teachers in a heartfelt way. He said, “Teachers, to me, are among the most important people in this country, and we are going to take care of our teachers. It was a powerful statement for teachers nationwide to hear. He added, “We are going to love and cherish our teachers, along with our children. And they are going to work with the parents, and they are going to work with everybody else, and it is going to be an amazing thing to watch. And it really is going to be something special.” A hopeful, inspiring vision for a new era was cast.

The president’s closing remarks of his address before signing the executive order were the same as he began, “We are going to be returning education very simply back to states where it belongs.”

Click HERE to listen to Dr. Keri D. Ingraham’s interview on Newsmax National Report, or watch below.