{"id":9657,"date":"2026-05-22T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:43:15","slug":"a-year-of-white-house-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/05\/22\/a-year-of-white-house-invitations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of White House Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director, Keri D. Ingraham, returned to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-frame\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc99Incredibly grateful for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> invitations and opportunities to advance education freedom in America\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H4OXECnZ0u\">pic.twitter.com\/H4OXECnZ0u<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Keri D. Ingraham (@KeriDIngraham) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeriDIngraham\/status\/2053999933171408898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recognition of her education work, Ingraham has received a dozen invitations over the past year. The first invitation came in March of 2025 from President Trump to attend the \u201c<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>\u201d executive order signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House. It was a special day that provided her with the opportunity to speak individually with nine governors and many other state and national leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following that, Ingraham was invited to the White House for meetings and then for the America 250 Summit in August. In September, she was invited by First Lady Melania Trump to the White House AI Education Task Force Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image m-b-n\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"2114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-2400x2114.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9662\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1352952654639632;width:558px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-2400x2114.jpeg 2400w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-1200x1057.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-600x529.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-768x676.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-1536x1353.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-2048x1804.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-50x44.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/IMG7727-2-copy-2-1600x1409.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next came a series of White House education roundtables hosted by U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon that Ingraham was asked to attend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During National School Choice Week in January, Ingraham was invited to the White House for a school choice roundtable. While there, she was selected to contribute to a White House video. President Trump retweeted the video of Ingraham, which trended as the top post on his page for 3 days and received nearly half a million views.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image m-b-n\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1174\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-White-House-Video-Jan-30-2026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9663\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2410316075237542;width:637px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-White-House-Video-Jan-30-2026.png 1174w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-White-House-Video-Jan-30-2026-600x483.png 600w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-White-House-Video-Jan-30-2026-768x619.png 768w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-White-House-Video-Jan-30-2026-50x40.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, President Trump invited Ingraham to the White House St. Patrick\u2019s Day celebration, where she spoke with members of the Cabinet and other key leaders of the Administration about her work at Discovery Institute&#8217;s American Center for Transforming Education. The following week, First Lady Melania Trump invited her to the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit with leaders from 45 nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding these invitations to the White House, as well as others, Ingraham shared that she is grateful for the deeply meaningful opportunities to contribute and that each recognition of her work from the President, First Lady, and their team has been an honor of a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2300\" height=\"2227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9686\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0327911179963851;width:638px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025.jpg 2300w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-1200x1162.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-600x581.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-1536x1487.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-2048x1983.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-50x48.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/m\/sites\/71\/2026\/05\/Keri-Ingraham-South-Portico-White-House-Sept-4-2025-1600x1549.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2300px) 100vw, 2300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director, Keri D. Ingraham, returned to the White House. In recognition of her education work, Ingraham has received a dozen invitations over the past year. The first invitation came in March of 2025 from President Trump to attend the \u201cImproving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities\u201d executive order signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House. It was a special day that provided her with the opportunity to speak individually with nine governors and many other state and national leaders. Following that, Ingraham was invited to the White House for meetings and then for the America 250 Summit in August. In September, she was invited<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/05\/22\/a-year-of-white-house-invitations\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":9668,"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],"tags":[2759,2457,591,331,78,205,1445,1294,2603,2805,85,3033,72,74,83,1150,2568],"coauthors":[1059],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-policy","tag-america-250","tag-donald-trump","tag-education-freedom","tag-education-spending","tag-k-12","tag-k-12-education","tag-keri-d-ingraham","tag-keri-ingraham","tag-linda-mcmahon","tag-melania-trump","tag-parents","tag-president","tag-public-schools","tag-school-choice","tag-teacher-unions","tag-universal-school-choice","tag-white-house"],"acf":[],"author_names":["American Center for Transforming Education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","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=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9695,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions\/9695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9657"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}