Good day all. One of President Trump’s promises was to get rid of the Teacher’s Union’s slush fund, the Department of Education. This has been a goal of many Americans and some GOP congress critters for a good 20 years.
Today, March 20th, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive order to start dismantling the Department of Education aas much as the current law allows. Here are the details from Fox News:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to scale down the Department of Education, a move expected to spur lawsuits challenging the directive and that will likely require Congressional approval.
Trump has frequently discussed plans to eliminate the Department of Education dating back to the campaign trail and said in September 2024 he wanted to cut down on the federal government’s influence over education to “stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.”
“Everybody knows it’s right, and we have to get our children educated,” Trump said Thursday. “We’re not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven’t for a long time.”
The creation of the Department of Education was the “Brainchild” of the Third Worst President in American History, Jimmy Carter. Since it’s creation, it has not educated one single child. In fact, test scores have collapsed with the public schools becoming nothing more than Progressive Liberal indoctrination centers.
A White House fact sheet on the executive order said the directive aims to “turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies” and instructs Education Secretary 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.”
Basically start the layoffs and closing things down. Only process those things required by law from Congress. Sounds good to me!
Still, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier Thursday the executive order would not entirely shutter the agency but would “greatly minimize” it.
As much as President Trump and millions of parents would like nothing better then the (Non)Education Department to just close it’s doors, the Administration fully acknowledged that this will require Congress to act.
“It’s not going to be shut down,” Leavitt said. “Pell Grants and student loans will still be run out of the department in Washington, D.C., but the great responsibility of educating our nation’s students will return to the states.”
Trump said Thursday these programs and others that provide resources for children with special needs would remain but would fall under other agencies.
“They’re going to be preserved in full and redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them,” Trump said.
One group that is going to go berserk are the Teacher’s unions. Since the inception of the DoED, they have used it as a means to loot money from the taxpayers and to force school districts to do things that many know were bad ideas and that parents were flat out opposed to. The Union leadership liked it because it allowed them to run the Public School systems covertly. (And sometimes, not that covertly either)
A Gallup Poll released in February shows Americans’ satisfaction with education has dropped significantly in the past decade. The poll found that only 24% of Americans are satisfied with the quality of education in the U.S. as of January 2025, compared to 37% in January 2017.
One of the things that has really turned Parents and most Americans against the Education Department, and public schools, was the Great Panicdemic of 2020. The Unions, in many cases, forced the schools to close and forced children into online classrooms. This was a complete disaster and thanks to this, children are a good 2 years behind where they should be.
Add to that, parents who had to work from home actually saw what their children were being taught and exploded. Parents went to school board meetings who had never bothered before and they ripped into the teachers, school administrators and the school boards themselves. The result? The “Education Professionals” asked the Biden/Garland DoJ to declare parents to be terrorists.
Critics in the White House have pointed to the “Nation’s Report Card,” the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released every two years, published Jan. 27. The exam tests fourth and eighth grade students and found almost stagnant math scores for eighth graders compared to 2022. Reading scores dropped two points at both grade levels.
Test scores have been dropping steadily for years. I’ve read that in some cases, the scores are so bad, that they actually change the scoring criteria to make it look like the teachers aren’t as incompetent as they actually are.
Trump said new efforts to upend the Department of Education would pave the way for states like Texas to provide education on par with countries like Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
“And then you’ll have some laggards, and we’ll work with them,” Trump said. “And we can all tell you who the laggards will be, right now, probably, but let’s not get into that.”
Most of these “Laggards” are going to be in Democrat controlled cities and states that are basically controlled by the Teacher’s Unions. That will need to change. Step one will be outright ending the Department of Education entirely.
The executive branch needs Congress to sign off on eradicating the agency under Article II of the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, this measure would require 60 votes to pass in the Senate, and there are only 53 Republicans.
That 60 vote requirement is not accurate. What is being referred to is the ability to shut down a filibuster. Frankly, the Republicans should force the Democrats to do a full on filibuster in the old sense. Make them stand on the floor of the senate and continue speaking nonstop.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., suggested in an X post Wednesday that the Senate use the budget reconciliation process to pass the measure, which would require only 51 votes. Massie has spearheaded legislative efforts to draw down the agency and introduced a measure Jan. 31 to eliminate the Department of Education by December 2026.
That’s another way. A third method is to just zero out the Department of Education’s budget. No money for salaries, office space, nothing.
McMahon also offered reassurances that overhauling the agency wouldn’t mean “cutting off funds for those who depend on them” and stressed the agency would partner with Congress to streamline operations.
“We’re going to follow the law and eliminate the bureaucracy responsibly by working through Congress to ensure a lawful and orderly transition,” McMahon said in a statement Thursday.
Not to worry. I’m sure that someone is shopping around for an Obama or Biden Judge to stop the shutdown and order congress to spend even more money on this out of control bureaucracy.
Even without fully closing the agency, the Trump administration has moved to significantly cut down its force. On March 11, the Department of Education unveiled plans to cut its staff of just more than 4,000 people in half.
That’s a great start. How about cutting it down to about 50 people working out of the Secretary’s office? You can then close the entire building and sell it.
Should efforts to shutter the agency advance, National Education Association President Becky Pringle cautioned that college would become more costly for families and that students with disabilities would suffer.
And here comes the Union thugs demanding their money or “People will die!!”
“If successful, Trump’s continued actions will hurt all students by sending class sizes soaring, cutting job training programs, making higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families, taking away special education services for students with disabilities, and gutting student civil rights protections,” Pringle said in a statement Wednesday evening.
Likewise, the American Federation of Teachers urged Congress earlier in March to oppose any executive orders to dismantle the agency. The teachers union pointed to an NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll conducted in February that found more than 60% of Americans “strongly oppose” eradicating the agency.
That poll is absolute garbage. What they should poll is people’s attitude towards the Teacher’s unions. The last I checked, their own membership is opposed to them by a fair margin. The only reason these people are part of the union is force. No union membership, no job.
In response to reports Wednesday evening regarding Trump’s intention to sign the directive Thursday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten announced the union would challenge the order.
“See you in court,” Weingarten said.
As I said, the Unions are going to start judge shopping. An honest judge will throw them out of court. They won’t be looking for an honest judge, they will be looking for an Obama or Biden judge. As for Randi Weingarten? I don’t think she really understands how much parents, at least those who know about her and her history, despise her.
Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urged the courts to step in and block Trump’s efforts to disband the department, describing the move as “one of the most destructive and devastating steps” Trump has ever taken.
“The courts must act to uphold the rule of law and stop Donald Trump’s tyrannical power grab,” Schumer said in a statement Thursday.
Once again, we have the Democrats projecting. They are accusing President Trump of doing what they have done in the past. Schumer and the other Democrats, if they’re honest with themselves, (Which they aren’t capable of being), know they are on the wrong side of this issue. With each new DOGE audit result showing the levels of incompetence, corruption and fraud, the administration’s poll numbers go up and the Democrats go down. Do the math moron.
Legal actions opposing Trump’s proposed moves already are underway. A group of attorneys general from 21 states filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts March 13 after layoffs at the agency.
The lawsuit said efforts to dismantle the agency, including the layoffs, are “an unlawful violation of the separation of powers, and the Executive’s obligation to take care that the law be faithfully executed.”
The Separation of Powers? They are going to try and pull that one? This is all being done under the Executive Branch’s Constitutional authority. Where there is action required by congress, the Trump administration is seeking the appropriate legislation. These corrupt communist Soros Attorneys General need to have their cases dismissed for lack of standing.
The simple fact of the matter is that President Trump was elected to clean up the mess made by not only Dementia Joe Biden, but Obama, Both Bush’s, Clinton and Carter. The United States is at a crossroads. The majority of the American people want the government reduced in size and power. Closing the Department of (Non)education is another step in that goal.
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