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On March 20, I was at the White House as President Trump unveiled and signed into law the “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” executive order. It was an incredible honor to receive this special invitation to the White House and recognition as an education freedom champion in our country from the President of the United States. While at the White House, I had the pleasure of speaking with Governors Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Kim Reynolds, Bill Lee, Jeff Landry, Mike Braun, Mike DeWine, Brad Little, and Jim Pillen, among many others. It was a great day for the nation, taking an essential step in the right direction to effectively educate children, who are the future of Read More ›

Making good on his campaign promise, President Trump has taken historic action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Last Thursday, the President signed the “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” executive order into law. The order directs the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.” According to the associated White House Fact Sheet, the executive order returns “power over education to families instead of bureaucracies.” This is a much-needed change for our country because, over the past 45 years, the U.S. Department Read More ›

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 Read More ›

On Thursday, Keri D. Ingraham, Director of the American Center for Transforming Education, was at the White House at the invitation of President Trump for the “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” executive order unveiling and signing ceremony. “It was an incredible honor to receive this special invitation to the White House and recognition as an education freedom champion in our country from the President of the United States. While at the White House, I had the pleasure of speaking with Governors Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Kim Reynolds, Bill Lee, Jeff Landry, Mike Braun, Mike DeWine, Brad Little, and Jim Pillen, among many others. It was a great day for the nation, taking an essential step in Read More ›

On March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. Keri D. Ingraham attended the signing as a guest of the President. Afterward, she appeared on NTD News Today to discuss the executive order. She covered concerns about interruption in service to our nation’s schoolchildren, the failure of big government to improve student learning, the advantages of decentralizing education, and the future possibility of fully abolishing the Department of Education.

On March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. Keri D. Ingraham attended the signing as a guest of the President. Afterward, she appeared on Newsmax National Report to discuss the executive order. Keri responded to the “fearmongering” reactions to the executive order, spoke of the need of education returning to the states, and addressed the importance of school choice for all students.

Since the October 7, 2023, massacre perpetrated on Israeli citizens by Hamas, with the subsequent response by Israel to declare war and enter the Gaza Strip to defeat Hamas, overt anti-Semitic sentiment has erupted on college campuses across America. Citing reports of “widespread antisemitic harassment,” the U.S. Department of Education is now actively investigating 60 institutions of higher learning. Unfortunately, anti-Semitism is also playing out in K-12 education, particularly in a number of Northern California school districts like Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD). These and other districts are embroiled in controversy over California’s Ethnic Studies curriculum mandate. Many Californians are aware that in October 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom Read More ›

President Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises and delivering results for the American people. When it comes to the U.S. Department of Education, it is no different. Whether dramatically reducing, dismantling, or completely eliminating the department, the president will be good to his word, and work towards that end is already underway. While just 50 days in office thus far, the president has assembled a team that will get rid of the massive federal bureaucracy that is not improving education for children. Keep in mind that the U.S. Department of Education was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter to pay back the largest teachers union, the National Education Association, for their help in getting him elected. It’s time to eliminate the Read More ›

Last week, Wyoming enacted universal school choice, which brings the total to 15 states with universal school choice in America. These state leaders recognize that parents are the primary educators of their children and must be empowered to decide where and how their children are educated. Because of these recent legislative events, millions of parents have regained control of their children’s education. This is a giant step forward in forcing public schools to improve. Competition fuels innovation, and public education needs all the innovation it can get. Accountability is fostered by granting parents a portion of their child’s education funding to allocate toward the education avenue they select. When students are restricted to an assigned government school, on the other hand, Read More ›

Keri D. Ingraham appeared on the CBN News Quick Start Podcast to discuss the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education. She covered the origins of the U.S. Department of Education, the recent results of the Nation’s Report Card, and how school choice empowers parents and improves learning for all students.

On Tuesday, Wyoming became the 15th state to enact universal school choice into law with Gov. Mark Gordon’s signature on the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act. The Cowboy State joins a rapidly growing group of states that have passed laws giving all (or nearly all) families statewide choice concerning their children’s kindergarten through twelfth-grade education. Those states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia. The act grants families who choose to participate with an education savings account of $7,000 per student per year to allocate toward approved K-12 educational expenses. Education savings accounts with universal eligibility are the gold standard of school choice programs due to the flexibility they provide parents to select the best learning Read More ›

Today, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act into law, bringing the total to 15 states with universal (or near-universal) school choice! Last week, Idaho Governor Brad Little ushered in school choice for families statewide. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee brought education freedom to Tennesseans a few weeks ago. Last year, Alabama and Louisiana got the job done. The year prior, 2023, included Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, and North Carolina enacting universal school choice in their states. All of these wins were built upon the courageous, bold, and forward-thinking leadership of West Virginia Senator Patricia Puertas Rucker and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, who led the way in 2021 and 2022, helping advance universal school choice Read More ›