{"id":9447,"date":"2026-03-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:49:10","slug":"keri-d-ingraham-talks-anniversary-of-executive-order-shrinking-dept-of-ed-on-the-silk-or-joe-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/03\/20\/keri-d-ingraham-talks-anniversary-of-executive-order-shrinking-dept-of-ed-on-the-silk-or-joe-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Keri D. Ingraham Talks Anniversary of Executive Order Dismantling Dept. of Ed. on The Silk or Joe Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keri D. Ingraham appeared on The Silk or Joe Show to discuss the progress of shrinking the U.S. Department of Education since President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on March 20, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities\/\">Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities<\/a>. She talks about the importance of returning power to local communities and parents in K-12 education, the fear-mongering of the teachers unions, and how free market solutions will improve education outcomes nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com\/shows\/15e56969-92e1-4a78-9abd-d03a0b07ff65\/episodes\/02c171ae-93a6-471b-a84d-459bea8bde8e\">Listen Here (Starts at 45:18)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keri D. Ingraham appeared on The Silk or Joe Show to discuss the progress of shrinking the U.S. Department of Education since President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on March 20, 2025, Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities. She talks about the importance of returning power to local communities and parents in K-12 education, the fear-mongering of the teachers unions, and how free market solutions will improve education outcomes nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":9449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[2412,2457,1152,78,205,1445,1294,1472,2955,209],"coauthors":[1059],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-policy","category-school-choice","tag-audio-interview","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-market-principles","tag-k-12","tag-k-12-education","tag-keri-d-ingraham","tag-keri-ingraham","tag-teachers-unions-2","tag-the-silk-or-joe-show","tag-u-s-department-of-education"],"acf":[],"author_names":["American Center for Transforming Education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9447"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}