Education Policy

On April 16, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri D. Ingraham delivered a 45-minute speech at a Women of Washington dinner event. The speech was followed by a time for questions and answers. Approximately a hundred people attended the special event held in Bellevue, Washington. The following is an excerpt from Ingraham’s speech: As President Ronald Reagan famously said in his March 30, 1961 speech: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with Read More ›

Keri D. Ingraham appeared on NTD News Today on Tuesday, April 22, to discuss the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that collections of defaulted federal student loans would resume on May 5. Ingraham outlined the Biden administration’s unlawful actions to cancel student loans and defended the Trump administration’s return to enforcing repayment of student loans. “The goal is to help people be free from debt while not pushing that onto those who chose not to go to college,” said Ingraham.

Keri D. Ingraham appeared on NTD News on April 8, 2025, to discuss the continued changes to the Department of Education. Dr. Ingraham debated Educate President and former teacher Stacey Schultz on concerns about the transfer of student loans to the Small Business Administration, whether the dismantling of the Department of Education will benefit educators, and how education can be improved nationally.

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.