On March 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education and returning control over education to states, parents, and local communities. Contrary to what headlines and Democrat politicians are claiming, this move does not amount to defunding schools.
It’s not an attack on education — it’s an attack on a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy that has failed its core mission.
The Department of Education was created in 1979 after heavy lobbying from the teachers’ union. Despite decades of federal oversight and massive spending, educational outcomes have only gotten worse.
During the COVID-19 pandemic alone, the federal government poured hundreds of billions into schools that were not even open. Last year, total education-related federal spending reached $268 billion. And what did taxpayers get in return? Some of the worst academic performance in modern history.
Teacher union chief Randi Weingarten made a recent media appearance during which she admitted the real reason she doesn’t want the Trump administration to shut down the Department of Education.
It’s all about school choice. She doesn’t want parents and kids to have it.
Why would she oppose school choice? Simple. It threatens teacher unions. If your child’s teacher is awful, or their school is failing, Weingarten doesn’t want parents to have the option of pulling their child out of the school. What if everyone decides to do that and the school has to close?
Randi Weingarten says quiet part out loud: Fears Ed Dept closure will boost school choice funds
Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten said during a recent podcast appearance that she is fearful President Donald Trump’s plans to terminate the Department of Education will mean more funding for school choice vouchers, which she decried as a “tax credit” for wealthy families already sending their kids to private school.
Weingarten’s comments came during a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast, who spoke with her about the implications of Trump’s spending reforms, particularly his plan to terminate the Department of Education. Weingarten stated that cutting the department’s roughly $100 billion in funding will primarily benefit tax cuts for the wealthy or – “equally pernicious” – be redirected to states as “block grants.”
“We know, for example, what Texas would do,” Weingarten told Jong-Fast. “They’ll use it for vouchers. So they won’t give [federal funding] to the kids who have it now, they’ll just give it for vouchers.”
“And frankly, what we are seeing in all the programs now – in terms of vouchers – they don’t work for kids,” Weingarten continued. “They basically go right now – it becomes a tax credit for people who already are sending their kids to private schools. So it’s income redistribution.”
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Democrats constantly claim to believe in choice. They sure as heck don’t believe in school choice.
School science curriculums are accused of promoting “fake science” by pushing unproven theories of global warming and climate change as solid facts.
The movement behind climate change is seen as a conspiracy by truth media and honest scientists, and wealthy elites who promote “going green” are hypocritical as they engage in environmentally contradictory behaviors.
There is a call to remove climate change teachings from school curriculums, viewing it as a hoax and an agenda-driven narrative rather than a scientifically backed phenomenon.
Step foot into any school, public or private, at any level, including elementary, middle, or high school, and open a science book and what do you find? Fake science. There are gobs of lessons, lesson plans, supplementary materials, projects, experiments, illustrations and videos that support the unproven (conspiracy) theory of global warming. Children and teens alike have brains like sponges, that are absorbing all of this and wondering how they can write a report, create a project, do their own presentation, and contribute on the local, regional, and global scale to a cause that most likely doesn’t even change anything. What a shame.
A Florida school district that banned student cell phone use this school year is reporting fewer problems and better grades.
Broward County Public Schools banned any phone use, including at lunchtime, according to WTVJ-TV.
“I’ve noticed a lot more creativity with students, I think their attention spans are a little longer, they have excellent conversations in their groups, those conversations are lasting longer, our class discussions are definitely a lot longer and they’re a lot deeper because no one’s really focused on checking their phone,” Dan Katz, who teaches drama and law at Fort Lauderdale High School, said.
School board member Allen Zeman said fights are down 17 percent from the same point a year ago.
The Idaho State Board of Education banned “DEI ideology” in all of the state’s higher education institutions, which going forward will be required to adhere to “political neutrality” instead of indoctrinating students.
The College Fix reported that the board approved three resolutions last month, each targeting a different facet of left-wing educational control. Taken together, they require colleges and universities to “establish and maintain equality of opportunity for all students regardless of personal identity characteristics”; prohibit any offices, policies, or initiatives “dedicated to DEI ideology”; protect staff and students alike from being required to recognize “preferred pronouns”; require “political neutrality” of schools; require curriculum information be made available to the public; and more.
Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history.
Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked a Biden administration guidance on forcing widespread recognition and accommodation of LGBT ideology on public education by redefining federal nondiscrimination language, siding with Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal challenge to the rule change.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) under President Joe Biden issued a guidance to educators that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) interprets Title IX, the longstanding set of rules against sex discrimination in public education, to also cover “sexual orientation and gender identity,” and will “fully enforce” this interpretation “in education programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department.”
A whistleblower has come forward with explosive claims that race-based admissions policies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have severely degraded the quality of its medical school, prompting a stern warning from tech mogul Elon Musk about the potential for patient deaths due to medical incompetence.
Long hailed as a premier institution, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine has seen a precipitous drop in its standards, according to damning evidence and interviews conducted by the Washington Free Beacon.
The institution, which annually attracts up to 14,000 applicants, accepted just 173 in 2023, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).
In November 2021, during a typical admissions committee meeting, concerns were raised about an African American applicant whose academic credentials significantly lagged behind UCLA’s stringent standards.
Warren Smith, the teacher behind a viral video skewering LGBT activists’ narrative that critics of gender ideology are “transphobic,” has been fired, he announced this week in a follow-up video detailing his ordeal.
Smith originally went viral in February for a video of his response to a student asking if he still liked Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s work “despite her bigoted opinions.” Smith engaged the student in a Socratic dialogue dissecting the premise that Rowling’s vocal opposition to the gender-fluidity movement constitutes bigotry, inviting a reconsideration of the pervasive leftist assumption.
