{"id":9538,"date":"2026-04-23T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:00:22","slug":"keri-d-ingraham-talks-shrinking-k-12-bureaucracy-with-ginny-gentles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/04\/23\/keri-d-ingraham-talks-shrinking-k-12-bureaucracy-with-ginny-gentles\/","title":{"rendered":"Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Reducing K-12 Bureaucracy with Ginny Gentles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 23, Keri D. Ingraham appeared on Freedom to Learn with Ginny Gentles, a podcast of the Defense of Freedom Institute. Dr. Ingraham discussed the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and why downsizing the federal bureaucracy will improve learning outcomes for students. She also shattered school choice myths, exposed why the teachers unions unravel over the loss of bureaucratic control, and explained how the first in our nation&#8217;s history federal tax credit scholarship program will work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-frame\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keri Ingraham on Scaling Back Federal Dominance, Union Control, &amp; Bloated Bureaucracy in K-12 Ed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPCz8cQubuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, Keri D. Ingraham appeared on Freedom to Learn with Ginny Gentles, a podcast of the Defense of Freedom Institute. Dr. Ingraham discussed the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and why downsizing the federal bureaucracy will improve learning outcomes for students. She also shattered school choice myths, exposed why the teachers unions unravel over the loss of bureaucratic control, and explained how the first in our nation&#8217;s history federal tax credit scholarship program will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":9539,"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":[48,47,56],"tags":[2999,2998,78,205,1445,1294,1472],"coauthors":[1059],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-policy","category-school-choice","category-unions","tag-defense-of-freedom-institute","tag-ginny-gentles","tag-k-12","tag-k-12-education","tag-keri-d-ingraham","tag-keri-ingraham","tag-teachers-unions-2"],"acf":[],"author_names":["American Center for Transforming Education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","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=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9543,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/9543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9538"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}