Education experts praise President Donald Trump for sending education issues back to states in an executive order to sign a long-awaited executive order to demolish Ministry of Education Thursday.
“This is a time in the past, rethinking how this country is doing education because we can’t continue to support the failed system,” Nicole Neily, president and founder of Parent Defence Education (PDE), told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Trump signs An executive order “returns to education very simply to the state to which it belongs” on Thursday.
“Today, we have taken historic action, which is 45 years of historical action,” Trump said of the decades-long historic efforts to demolish the department.
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“These numbers won’t say that – spending per student soared as achievements plummeted over the past 45 years,” Neilly said. “The status quo has clearly failed American children, and it’s done with just bureaucracy and activist pockets.”
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20, 2025 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan)
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“With this executive order, President Trump continues to take steps to fulfill his campaign commitments in education, and it’s time Congress sends school choice legislation to his desk so he can perform other tasks.”
Schultz told Fox News Digital that when signing the order, Trump “put down the bureaucratic machine in DC failed and brought school choices to every state.”
Free Mom Free, a political advocacy group for parents, called the move “a move that takes advantage of this moment to shape the future of learning”!
According to reports, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will take steps to allocate funds to the federal education department in Washington, U.S., to fund the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on February 4, 2025. (Kevin Lamarck)
“It’s an incredible opportunity to enable parents and local communities to take charge of education, rather than letting Washington bureaucrats make decisions!” the group wrote in a post on X.
Prior to the signing ceremony, the White House noted that the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores showed that the average test among students was low, an example of the department’s inability to improve education effectively.
“The NAEP (National Assessment of National Education Progress) scores show that our children are lagging behind,” White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields told Fox News. “In the past four years, Democrats have allowed millions of illegal minors to enter the country, tightening the resources of schools and shifting the focus of American students.”
“Parents and students are deeply frustrated by the state of our education system” and “the president used NAEP data in executive orders to highlight the latest downward trend in math and reading scores, which suggests the need for immediate action.”
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in an executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Kent Nissi Village)
“The executive order is largely expected, but it also includes an important directive to continue to fund beneficial programs like Pell Grant, Title II and Idea ‘Unstop’. It’s a welcome commitment, but taxpayers must also know what they get for their money,” the spelling added. “The department’s recent layoffs will follow this commitment as a challenge.”
“The hard work now begins with Congress, the Trump administration and families to determine how best to serve students,” she said.
According to Trump, while many aspects of the department will be eliminated, Title I funds, resources for students with disabilities, and Pell grants will be retained.
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Trump’s orders began efforts to start dismantling the department. However, the entire organization Can’t be completely abolished Unless Congress passes legislation to resolve the laws that establish the department.
