{"id":8465,"date":"2025-03-26T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:00:06","slug":"returning-education-to-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2025\/03\/26\/returning-education-to-the-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Education to the States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Thursday, President Trump announced<\/a>\u00a0from the East Room in the White House, \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making\u2026 I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all.\u201d Continuing, the president said, \u201cEveryone knows it is right. And we have to get our children educated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since taking office, 50%<\/a>\u00a0of 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 \u201cwill be fully preserved\u201d and \u201credistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president is giving local control back, empowering parents, and ensuring that teaching is a high-value profession in the future.<\/p>Keri D. Ingraham<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019t be served or that funding won\u2019t be there. The president is giving local control back, empowering parents, and ensuring that teaching is a high-value profession in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump spoke specifically about teachers in a heartfelt way. He said, \u201cTeachers, 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, \u201cWe 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.\u201d A hopeful, inspiring vision for a new era was cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president\u2019s closing remarks of his address before signing the executive order were the same as he began, \u201cWe are going to be returning education very simply back to states where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click HERE<\/a> to listen to Dr. Keri D. Ingraham\u2019s interview on Newsmax National Report, or watch below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students are back in the hands of the states, where they belong!

\ud83c\udf93 @neerajadeshp<\/a> & @KeriDIngraham<\/a> joined @NEWSMAX<\/a> to discuss @POTUS<\/a>'s executive order dismantling the Department of Education. pic.twitter.com\/o6M5FfADbs<\/a><\/p>— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) March 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>