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Before I served as governor of Arkansas or White House press secretary, I came to Washington and was a smart college graduate Ministry of Education. I thought I was there to change the world and found myself spending more time changing the coffee filter.
But I walked away with a clear course: It was time to abolish the Federal Ministry of Education.
I’m a mom of three, so I know no two children (even in the same family) learn the same way. Therefore, it is ridiculous to assume that every child in every community in the United States has the same educational needs or goals. But this is exactly how the Ministry of Education functions.
Education Minister said departments have taken the first step to eliminate “bureaucratic inflation”
A quarter trillion dollar agency Most of them are just a preacher, good at currency on the way from Congress to school. The problem is that the department can’t help but put in thousands of heavy regulations around all expenditures. Our states’ education programs are controlled by nameless federal bureaucrats rather than skilled teachers in our own communities.
President Donald Trump is already working to resolve the promise of the Department of Education. Document: The department is based in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2025. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Elimination departments will allow the federal government to flow freely to our communities – without forcing states to skip basketball to get it.
President Donald Trump saw this clearly and has become a zeroing for the Department of Education in his efforts to curb spending and drain the swamp, a classic example of federal overspending and waste. Republicans have promised to abolish it since President Ronald Reagan, but Trump has finally got the task done.
Parents are awake The inefficiency and lack of accountability for our school. The country’s transcripts show that even if spending per student soared to record levels, math, science and reading scores are no better than 20 years ago. Something has to be changed.
The answer is to return power to the state and the community. One of my first actions as governor was to pass the Learning Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the Arkansas education system, which increased the salary of starting teachers from $36,000 a year to $50,000 a year, bringing us from No. 48 in the country to the top five – 120 literacy coaches have been deployed and a universal school option for every student across the state.
Working in California may not work in Arkansas, and something that works for one family may not work for another. That’s why we focus on choice: families, not bureaucrats or postal codes should determine where their children go to school.
We are instilling from schools, too, just like Trump is standing out from our federal institutions. When our children face an educational crisis, we should focus on reading, writing and math – not crazy nonsense.
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When I first took office, I heard the story of a boy named Jack who struggled with learning disabilities and was untidy to fit a large size model Arkansas once had. His parents hoped their local school district would give Jack the resources he needed, but the opposite was true.
He was bullied. He is academically behind. He left school twice, and then the third time. One of Jack’s bullies told him to die in the ditch, and that’s where he was found: alone, soaked, sobbing in the ditch.
Elimination departments will allow the federal government to flow freely to our communities – without forcing states to skip basketball to get it.
Thanks to the account of educational freedom, his parents were able to place him in the professional school he is now thriving. Choosing to Jack not only gives you a safe opportunity, but also gives you a way to a better future.
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When it works properly, education can take even our most struggling children on the road to success. But top-down, suitable for all systems will never meet every child’s needs.
It is time to abolish the Department of Education, return the authority to the United States, and empower every parent and student to get the education they need and deserve.
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